But nothing does the job as well as the Navy’s all-weather Transit satellite navigational system, which can pinpoint a ship’s position to about 300 ft. Until now, Transit has been classified ...

The key to the navigation system is a common phenomenon ... a navigator can determine his exact distance from the satellite’s path. And since Transit will also announce just where it will ...

In 1964, the Navy Navigation Satellite System (NNSS) became operational. The highly classified system called Transit was built to support the Polaris ballistic missile submarine fleet. It operated on ...

and the U.S. Navy deployed the operational Transit satellite system in the 1960s. Then, in 1973, a group of Pentagon officials decided to create a "defense navigation satellite system," laying the ...

In the late 1950s, they began developing and testing satellite navigation technology, and the U.S. Navy deployed the operational Transit satellite system in the 1960s.

it replaced it with the Transit 5 navigational satellite— an artifact the Museum had wanted all along. In the 1960s, the U.S. Navy needed a precise navigation system for its nuclear-powered ...

The satellite, called Transit 4A ... The Cold War was well under way. The transit system was invented to solve a problem that needed solving … for the good of the country and the needs of ...

The satellite, called Transit 4A ... The Cold War was well under way. The transit system was invented to solve a problem that needed solving … for the good of the country and the needs of ...