
Navigation signals Author: Smith Solace Each GPS satellite continuously broadcasts a Navigation Message at 50 bit/s giving the time-of-week,...
* L1 (1575.42 MHz): Mix of Navigation Message, coarse-acquisition (C/A) code and encrypted precision P(Y) code, plus the new L1C on future B...
A GPS receiver calculates its position by precisely timing the signals sent by the GPS satellites high above the Earth. Each satellite conti...
The first satellite navigation system, Transit , used by the United States Navy , was first successfully tested in 1960. It used a constella...
"GPS" redirects here. For other uses, see GPS (disambiguation) . For a generally accessible and less technical introduction to the...