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Posted: Fri Jun 05, 2026 3:50 pm
From Space Daily On December 28, 1964, a Thor-Able-Star rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California and put a small US Navy satellite into a low polar orbit. The satellite was called Transit 5B-5. It weighed about 70 kilograms. It was part of the first satellite-based navigation system in human history — the predecessor to GPS, designed to help American submarines fix their position anywhere in the world. It was given a working lifetime of a few years. Maybe five, if everything went well. That was sixty-one years ago. Read More Source: https://aheadoftheherd.com/there-is-a-s ... t-the-nav/