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Navigation: Exploring Disruption

Trailblazers with Walter Isaacson

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The Challenges of a Hand Held Navigation Device

The navon thousand was about the size of a standard brick. It had an antenna that rotated up when you were using it to receive the satellite signal. The biggest problem with the techno logy was the limited number of g p s satellites in space, which meant that the signal could only be received for a few hours every day.

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