There’s a whole world of GPS-alikes out there. Let’s take a look. The Global Positioning System (GPS) that we all know and love flew its first satellite in the distant past of 1978 ...
Beer, Michael, and Sunru Yong. "TerraCog Global Positioning Systems: Conflict and Communication on Project Aerial (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 082-185, April 2008.
Ever wonder how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works? This extraordinarily complex system is actually based on some simple concepts. Find out what they are in this Shockwave game.
Dubbed Etak, the system was simultaneously far ahead of its time and doomed to failure by the constellation of global positioning satellites being assembled overhead as it was being rolled out.