Innovations Derived from the Transit Program
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On 4 October 1957, without warning, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik I, and with it the space age. The United States was taken by surprise. We had no receiving equipment to listen to the satellite, and worst of all, we didn’t know what the satellite did. This external stimulus led to the Navy Navigation Satellite System, known as Transit, an all-weather satellite navigational system that allowed naval units to pinpoint their positions anywhere on Earth in direct support of the Fleet. This article addresses the largely untold story of Transit operations, including the military importance of Transit, the evolution of the Naval Satellite Operations Center, and the breakthroughs in satellite management resulting from the system. (
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