Multimedia Gallery
- Innovations: GPS
A combine, driven by farmer Tim Bardole, harvesting corn on his farm in Iowa. The combine is outfitted with a GPS guidance system.
ADS-B is the core technology of next-generation systems of air navigation and air traffic control.
The atomic clocks in the GPS system are so accurate that they take into account Albert Einstein’s understanding of time, space, and relativity.
A soldier using the Blue Force Tracker System.
This atomic clock was built for the first GPS satellites in the late 1970s.
The DAGR was an improvement on the PLGR, providing map data in a lighter hand-held device.
This equipment made up a prototype emergency location service based on GPS positioning.
A hand-held GPS receiver that provided geographic coordinates and a graphical display.
A hand-held GPS receiver that provided geographic coordinates and a graphical display.
The certification set for the first GPS receiver certified for use under Instrument Flight Rules (IFR).