The history of GPS runs alongside some of its predecessors and corresponding historical breakthroughs such as atomic clocks, general relativity, the launch of Sputnik and its radio transmissions, Polaris missiles, transit systems and Doppler. Those subjects and effects seem to have little in common at first glance, but they were all happening more or less during the 1950’s when technology was taking one of its largest leaps prior to the 1990’s.
Until then satellites were unheard of and to most people at that time, a seemingly distant and near impossible dream. It is possible that many average people of the 1950’s didn’t have the imagination or the foresight to think about space age ideas. It wasn’t really until the early 1960’s when shows like Star Trek were first broadcast across the nation. Star Trek opened up a whole new world of space age devices and a brand new language that included ‘transporters’ and ‘communicators’ and other words that in those days seemed to strange. Nowadays we kind of take some of those things for granted because the pads that Star Trek crews used are now what we call iPads, Communicators are mobile phones and pretty soon—unless they already exist and we haven’t been told—there could be transporters.
How GPS Came about
It wasn’t until we were able to send satellites into orbit did we really begin to comprehend how powerful they could be and how useful. During the 1960’s the initial concept of GPS was born, after the Air Force—in 1960—proposed a system named MOSAIC, which was essentially another version of LORAN. A follow up on the Project 57 study led to the final and initial concept that eventually became the forerunner for the GPS system. Development continued throughout the 1960’s and 1970’s when finally less crude versions were tested and used in defense systems and other government programs.
Once the concept of GPS was tested and found to be largely reliable it was eventually rolled out for public use in the form of personal GPS units. GPS tracking in New York can help you navigate the city, as with any other large city in the United States and prevent you from getting horribly lost in a strange place.
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