What is GLONASS and How it is Different From GPS?

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As the whole world watched with bated breath Sputnik 1 bursting out into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome, two physicists on the other side of the world at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) decided to monitor its radio transmissions. Soon, William Guier and George Weiffenbach realized that, because of the Doppler Effect, they could pinpoint where the satellite was … Read more