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by zikduruqe 54 days ago
The last time I built my own GPS network, I used a sextant, a watch set to UTC and nautical tables to determine where the orbiting bodies were.
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Harrison time pieces were indeed the cutting edge GPS technology of its day. That and moon watching.

Nowadays we have GPS and Pulsar / Quasar watching.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Very-long-baseline_interferome...