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    • Artist's conception of GPS Block II-F satellite in Earth orbit.
    Rights: NASA Published 2 September 2010, Updated 18 March 2020 Size: 350 KB Referencing Hub media

    Satellites collate information received from objects on Earth that have global positioning system sensors attached.

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      The development of electrical sensors – timeline

      Artificial sensors and probes enable us to overcome the limitations of our human senses and extend them in novel and useful ways, using the scientific concepts of electricity and waves. Find out ...

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      Global positioning system (GPS)

      Since the global positioning system (GPS) became fully operational in the mid-1990s, it’s widely used to navigate, map and survey land as well as study the small changes in movement of objects on ...

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