Satellites

Russian Pres threatens to fire officials having no computer skills (Itar-Tass)

20 Jul 2008

Russia's President Dmitry Medvedev has again shown that he is a state administrator living up to the 21st century standards - he has threatened to fire the government officials having no command of information technologies.

WHAT IS GPS? (The Wichita Eagle)

20 Jul 2008

Now you know The global positioning system is a navigation system made up of a network of 24 satellites placed into orbit by the U.S. Department of Defense. Although originally intended for military purposes, the government made it available for civilian use in the 1980s. The satellites orbit the Earth twice a day and transmit signals to Earth. The GPS receiver works by comparing the time a ...

Monument helps put Willamette Meridian on the map (Portland Tribune)

20 Jul 2008

TUALATIN — GPS systems and satellites aside, the real reason people know where they’re going on their travels is because of a more than 100-year-old system of cedar stakes and chiseled stone land markers. You might not care too much about latitude and longitude when it’s time to ...