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1. GPS Mobile Phones make life simpler and smother September 25, 2008 A decade ago technology visionaries were talking about a technology that people can use in their mobile phones to get direction, track their friends, and finally those kinds of services are finally starting with the help of Global Positioning System (GPS) that makes our life simpler and smother. The GPS first began to materialize when Russia put Sputnik into space in 1957. And today this system includes the operation of 24 satellites that continually circle the earth and is used for a variety of functions that helps you in map-making, land surveying, commerce and scientific affairs, such as sy... (read more) Author: carlodanie jenne

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3. Satellite PC: How it grows like this May 22, 2008 Satellite PC: How it growsPeople nowadays are quite familiar what is satellite, how it looks like and how it works. It was only yesterday when human had this faintest idea how important satellite especially in terms of communication. We could trace up the roots of satellite when the Russians were able to develop and launched the first world’s satellite in October 4, 1957. They called this satellite Sputnik. The Americans were caught off guard when they knew this of course. After that, US successfully launched also their Explorer I in January of 1958. Eventually, many countries started to... (read more) Author: Dian Sia

4. History of GPS (Global Positioning System) February 13, 2008 GPS, or Global Positioning System has been operational since December 1993, but its history lies much further back to the 1940s when ground based navigation systems such as Decca Navigator began. This, while it planted the seed of inspiration would not take another step forward until the 1957 launch of the first Sputnik by the Soviet union showed that satellites were a possibility. In the beginning the system was only intended for military use, but that changed in 1983 when a Soviet interceptor plane shot down a civilian aircraft in restricted Soviet space killing all on board, after the... (read more) Author: Robert Bell

5. The Space Race - First Part October 03, 2007 In 1952, the International Council of Scientific Unions (ICSU) announced the International Geophysical Year (IGY), a time span between July 1957 to December 1958. This period was to be filled with numerous scientific experiments and studies about Earth. It was in 1955 that the Soviet Union surprised the world by announcing the plan to orbit a satellite in the International Geophysical Year. As this was the time of great rivalry between the United States and the Soviet Union, US President Eisenhower promised that the United States would orbit a satellite in this period themselves. This was the ... (read more) Author: Klaus Schmidt

6. GPS Satelite Navigation : Find The Exact Location June 06, 2007 The word GPS Satelite Navigation may sound a bit difficult to understand for many. Simplifying the word in one plain sentence, the satellite navigation system allows a electronic device to find out its exact location through satellite. The GPS navigation device lets you be aware of longitude, latitude and altitude of that electronic device where it is kept. Possibility of satellite navigation was sensed first time in 1957, when Russia was launching his satellite Sputnik. In 1960s, USA Navy used the basic form of GPS Satellite Navigation when they used couple of satellites to track their ... (read more) Author: Darlene Kaitlene

7. The History of Satellite Television April 27, 2007 If you spend much time watching your favorite channels in your very own satellite television, have you ever wondered how it came to be? The idea of satellite television was first conceptualized during the “space race” when the United States and Russia were locked in competition. The Russians launched in 1957 the first ever satellite, Sputnik. However, the first US communication satellite was developed in 1963. After many years, the television industry was allowed to utilize this communication satellite. By the time 1975 rolled in, an experimental system was designed and built by BBC tran... (read more) Author: David Johnson

8. History of Satellite Television and Direct TV March 05, 2007 The original concept of satellite television started over 50 years ago with the vision of writer Arthur C. Clarke, who was the first to suggest a worldwide satellite communications system. Following his vision, the U.S. government began developing the for satellite technology in the 1950s, during the historical space race. The very first satellite, Sputnik, was developed and launched into orbit above the earth on October 4, 1957 by the Russians. The first communication satellite, Syncom II, was developed and launched by a consortium of business and government entities in 1963 and achieved... (read more) Author: David Johnson

9. The History of Satellite TV January 28, 2007 From Sputnik to free Satellite TV on your very own PC, the history of Satellite TV has encountered a number of events. While Sputnik had nothing to do with television, it had everything to do with the idea of Satellite television. If it were not for Mr. Arthur C. Clarke’s writings on Satellites and the Russians experiments with his thoughts, Satellite television could never have been invented. Many years after the launch of Sputnik and Explorer I in the 1950’s, the birth of digital satellite television came about. It was in 1976 that Home Box Office (HBO) made history by initiating sat... (read more) Author: Richard Banks

10. From Sputnik to Sports Channels - the history of Satellite TV July 15, 2006 The first satellite TV broadcast set out to capture something more ambitious than the latest sports channels: try outer space. In 1957, the Sputnik, the Soviet Union’s first artificial satellite, sent back the first images of outer space, beating the United States by one year (they later sent out a small scientific satellite called Explorer I). Though the broadcasts were pretty much long hours of very large and funky looking rocks (adding a whole new dimension to the media industry phrase, “dead air”) the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States pretty much ushered... (read more) Author: Philip Nicosia

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