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  2. Magellan Navigation - Wikipedia

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    Five years later, private equity firm Shah Capital Partners and other investors purchased Thales Navigation for $170 million and the company was officially renamed Magellan Navigation. Magellan was the creator of the Magellan NAV 1000—the world’s first commercial handheld GPS receiver, [citation needed] which debuted in 1989. In 1997 ...

  3. Satellite navigation device - Wikipedia

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    Vehicle navigation on a personal navigation assistant Garmin eTrex10 edition handheld. A satellite navigation device or satnav device, also known as a satellite navigation receiver or satnav receiver or simply a GPS device, is a user equipment that uses satellites of the Global Positioning System (GPS) or similar global navigation satellite systems (GNSS).

  4. Owner's manual - Wikipedia

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    2007 Toyota Yaris hatchback owner's manual 1919 Ford Motor Company car and truck operating manual. An owner's manual (also called an instruction manual or a user guide) is an instructional book or booklet that is supplied with almost all technologically advanced consumer products such as vehicles, home appliances and computer peripherals.

  5. Marine navigation - Wikipedia

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    Navigation and location of the ship by positioning techniques based on the aids provided by global positioning systems, such as GPS, GLONASS, or GALILEO. It is the system most widely spread and easiest to use, in spite of the errors that may arise.

  6. User guide - Wikipedia

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    The user guide engraved into a model of the Antikythera Mechanism. User guides have been found with ancient devices. One example is the Antikythera Mechanism, [1] a 2,000 year old Greek analogue computer that was found off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera in the year 1900.

  7. GLONASS - Wikipedia

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    In comparison, the same time precision of GPS navigation definitions were 2.00–8.76 m (6 ft 7 in – 28 ft 9 in) with mean number of NSV equals 6—11 (depending on station). Some modern receivers are able to use both GLONASS and GPS satellites together, providing greatly improved coverage in urban canyons and giving a very fast time to fix ...

  8. Global Positioning System - Wikipedia

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    The Global Positioning System (GPS), originally Navstar GPS, [2] is a satellite-based radio navigation system owned by the United States Space Force and operated by Mission Delta 31. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It is one of the global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) that provide geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver anywhere on or near the ...

  9. Talk:Magellan Navigation - Wikipedia

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    1.2 Fair use rationale for Image:Magellan crossover gps.jpg. 1 comment. 1.3 Fair use rationale for Image:Magellan logo.jpg. ... Talk: Magellan Navigation. Add languages.