Archive for the ‘Applications’ Category
150 pounds of stashed marijuana found by police in a suspect’s car has been thrown out as evidence. U.S. District federal judge Amul R. Thapar ruled that the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) illegally installed a GPS tracker on 49-year old Kentucky man’s, Dale Lee, car. As a result, marijuana found in the car was deemed […]
“When will the service guy get here?” If you operate four service vehicles in a mid-size town, the question usually isn’t all that hard to answer. But when your four service vehicles cover thousands of square miles throughout central California, including large areas with no cell phone coverage, the answer becomes a lot more difficult. […]
Historically, not much has been known about the ecological requirements of giant manta rays — fish that grow up to 25 feet wide and glide through our ocean waters with breathtaking beauty — until now. In the first ever study using satellite GPS tracking on six giant rays — four females, one male and one […]
Luckily For Guy Fieri his Lamborghini was recovered an amazing one year later! We wonder why no gps tracking device?
China Expanding its GPS Satellite Network
15 May 2012Space is getting more crowded with satellites. On April 30th, 2012, China completed a successful launch of two navigation satellites, which become satellites number twelve and thirteen of its rapidly expanding Compass Navigation Satellite System — the country’s second generation satellite navigation system. Last March, China announced an aggressive goal to place 100 satellites in […]




