{"id":225290,"date":"2015-02-20T11:03:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:03:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439689"},"modified":"2015-02-20T11:03:43","modified_gmt":"2015-02-20T15:03:43","slug":"gps-guides-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=225290","title":{"rendered":"GPS guides the world"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439689\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2014\/01\/140110-F-NF934-002.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Camera and GPS tracking device nab copper thief, Delta 4 on pad for next GPS launch, and Syracuse Plows Getting GPS Tracking Units,&#8221; are just a few of the leading news headlines regarding GPS today.<\/p>\n<p>GPS is a term people use and or misuse daily. The satellite system, also known as Global Positioning System, consists of 38 satellites, which circle the Earth twice a day and fly in medium Earth orbit at approximately 12,550 miles altitude.<\/p>\n<p>GPS prevalence today wasn&#8217;t predicted at its start. And it was not always a commodity utilized by more than 3 billion users on a daily basis.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123439689\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-air-force-space-command"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}