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Aerospace

 Home Technology Area of technology Transport Vehicle
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    • Satellite Aerospace
    • Communications satellite Aerospace
      • SpaceX Communications satellite
    • Satellite navigation Aerospace
      • Global Positioning System Satellite navigation

Satellite

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Communications satellite

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SpaceX

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Communications satellite
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What Elon Musk's 42,000 Satellites Could Do To Earth by Tech Insider (2020)
Source. Good primer. The main difference from older systems is that they fly closer to Earth, and are not geostationary. As a result, you have better latency. But you also need a bunc of them to have continuous coverage of an area.

Satellite navigation

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Global Positioning System (1978-, GPS)

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Satellite navigation
They actually carry atomic clocks in them.

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