{"id":240195,"date":"2016-03-23T18:53:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471270"},"modified":"2016-03-23T18:53:29","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T22:53:29","slug":"the-evolution-of-gps-from-desert-storm-to-todays-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=240195","title":{"rendered":"The evolution of GPS: From Desert Storm to today&#8217;s users"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471270\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/06\/130603-F-IN001-011.jpg\"<\/img><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In a desert, it&#8217;s easy to get lost.<\/p>\n<p>There are no roads, no signposts, nor vegetation to give you a clue as to where you are. That was the grim situation facing U.S. and coalition forces during the 1990-1991 crisis in the Persian Gulf, known as Desert Shield\/Desert Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes called &#8220;the first space war&#8221; by historians due to the extensive use of space-based satellites and other technological assets to command and control military forces on a battlefield, Operation Desert Storm marked a major test of the emerging Global Positioning System, or GPS, in an actual combat environment.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471270\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471270\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/shared\/media\/photodb\/thumbnails\/2013\/06\/130603-F-IN001-011.jpg\"><\/a><\/div>\n<p>In a desert, it&#8217;s easy to get lost.<\/p>\n<p>There are no roads, no signposts, nor vegetation to give you a clue as to where you are. That was the grim situation facing U.S. and coalition forces during the 1990-1991 crisis in the Persian Gulf, known as Desert Shield\/Desert Storm.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes called &#8220;the first space war&#8221; by historians due to the extensive use of space-based satellites and other technological assets to command and control military forces on a battlefield, Operation Desert Storm marked a major test of the emerging Global Positioning System, or GPS, in an actual combat environment.<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.afspc.af.mil\/news\/story.asp?id=123471270\">more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","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-240195","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\/240195","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=240195"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240196,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240195\/revisions\/240196"}],"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=240195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=240195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=240195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}