satellite navigation system
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[edit]Noun
[edit]satellite navigation system (plural satellite navigation systems)
- Any electronic navigation system which uses space satellites as radio signal sources and position references.
- A satellite network used for implementing such a system.
- A navigation device that implements access to such a system, having satellite signal receivers to access the satellite network.
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[edit]See also
[edit]- Global Positioning System / GPS / NavStar / Navstar (the U.S. system)
- Beidou / BeiDou (the Chinese system)
- GLONASS (the Russian system)
- Galileo (the EU system)
- GPS / global positioning system (such systems in general)
- GPS receiver
Further reading
[edit]- satellite navigation on Wikipedia.Wikipedia