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2. Garmin - Wikipedia

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   Garmin Ltd. (shortened to Garmin, stylized as GARMIN, and formerly known as ProNav) is an American, Swiss-domiciled multinational technology company founded in 1989 by Gary Burrell and Min Kao in Lenexa, Kansas, United States, with operational headquarters in Olathe, Kansas. [3][4] Since 2010, the company is legally incorporated in Schaffhausen ...

3. Geocaching - Wikipedia

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   Geocaching (/ ˈ dʒ iː oʊ k æ ʃ ɪ ŋ /, JEE-oh-KASH-ing) is an outdoor recreational activity, in which participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called geocaches or caches, at specific locations marked by coordinates all over the world. [2]

4. Satellite navigation device - Wikipedia

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   Satellite navigation device. A satellite navigation device, satnav device or satellite navigation receiver is a user equipment that uses one or more of several global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) to calculate the device's geographical position and provide navigational advice. Depending on the software used, the satnav device may display ...

5. Here Technologies - Wikipedia

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   Here Technologies (stylized and trade name as HERE and here) is a Dutch multinational group specialized in mapping technologies, location data, and related automotive services to individuals and companies. It is majority-owned by a consortium of German automotive companies (namely Audi, BMW, the Mercedes-Benz Group) and American semiconductor ...

6. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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   GPS receiver manufacturers design GPS receivers to use spectrum beyond the GPS-allocated band. In some cases, GPS receivers are designed to use up to 400 MHz of spectrum in either direction of the L1 frequency of 1575.42 MHz, because mobile satellite services in those regions are broadcasting from space to ground, and at power levels ...

7. List of GPS satellites - Wikipedia

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   Samples of three GPS satellites' orbits over a five-year period (2013 to 2018) USA-242 · USA-239 · USA-151 · Earth As of 15 August 2023, 83 Global Positioning System navigation satellites have been built: 31 are launched and operational, 4 are unhealthy or in reserve, 41 are retired, 2 were lost during launch, and 1 prototype was never launched. 4 Block III satellites have completed ...