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One of the unexpected side benefits of the decades long space race between the United States of America and Russia is the plethora of satellites which orbit our earth on a daily basis, and the modern day usages that the world can find for the technology which travels in near and distant orbits around our planet. From NASA's first steps into the bounds of deep space and from Russia's blinking, beeping Sputnik which first came through on a crackling radio signal, we have numerous technological leaps, including GPS tracking.

The side effect of launching satellites into near orbit had a profound effect on numerous things, but it is the ability to use those satellites to locate and identify the position of any point on the planet which is perhaps the most useful. Global positioning systems, or GPS for short, have many practical applications in many people's lives.