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Commercially, GPS has been very successful and has **led to numerous developments in a wide range of fields**: maritime, land and air navigation, tracking of commercial fleets (boats, aircraft, trucks), route monitoring and tracing, and route relevance assessment. The integration of "GPS chips" in smartphones is increasing the number of domestic and individual uses. In the scientific field, the precision of location and synchronization makes it possible to develop and exploit new applications: geodesy, synchronization between atomic clocks, study of the atmosphere, etc.
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# **How GPS works**
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# **How GPS works:**
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Today the constellation of **30 satellites** is composed of different generations (all transmitting the same signals): 7 from the IIR block (1997-2004), 7 from the IIR(M) block (2005-2009), 12 from the IIF block (2010-2016) and 4 from the III block.
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