USA is the only country in the world that has a fully functional GPS system for itself. It has been with them since the 1960s. It started as a military project but it was open for civilian usage in 1993 at no cost at all. President Ronald Reagan makes the suggestion after a Korean civil aircraft strayed into Russian airspace and was shot down. It has proved itself beneficial especially to the military as it plays its role to great effect in the Gulf wars.
Other powers are keen to launched their own GPS system with the European Commission and European Space Agency launching a similar technology they called Galileo Project. The project is expected to be fully operational by 2011. Russia has also come along with their own system called GLONASS. It has been there since 1982 but now they have decided to revive it. China also has come into the picture with their recent boom with a system they will call Compass. If all goes well, it will be the end of US monopoly in the GPS segment.
- From Newsnow.
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