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Re: Averaging sights on commercial vessels
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 7, 18:25 -0500
From: Alexandre Eremenko
Date: 2004 Oct 7, 18:25 -0500
So early??! I recall that the first artifricial satellite (the "Sputnik") was launched in 1957. Alex. On Thu, 7 Oct 2004, Stacy Hanna wrote: > Navy ships started using Sat Nav in 1962 or 1964 > depending on the source > you use. It was released for commercial and public use > in 1967 however > it was the early to mid 70's before its use outside of the > military > became widespread due to the cost of the receivers.