Richard Easton

Co-author of ”GPS Declassified: From Smart Bombs to Smartphones”

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#GPS - I just heard from my publisher that a paperback edition of my book “GPS Declassified” will be published next spring.

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@tunguz @Thievesbook They will steal your coat.

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@dicarlo_mike @cboyack I’m talking about the ones used in NTS-1 and 2. Yes, the government supported the work early on but Kern built the clocks which made GPS successful.

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@yudkus02 @oscarddt @heospace Here’s one from 1958. I’m wearing the red coat.

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@areoinfo @stephen_e_meyer @airandspace It was at the main museum in D.C. I don’t know if it will be in the additional areas which will open to the public circa July 1.
Here’s the old exhibit.
Vanguard 1 50th - wife and father are at 15 seconds. https://t.co/IOwY4Ge25l

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@walterkirn It’s an incentive to ramp up voting fraud. But we can trust that the votes which are counted days or weeks after Election Day are legitimate.

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@areoinfo @stephen_e_meyer @airandspace Thanks! Here is the story of how Vanguard TV-3 ended up in @airandspace.

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@areoinfo @stephen_e_meyer @airandspace Here are results from NTS-2.

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@Ron_Rives @RealJoeWeil He got lucky twice that day. I wouldn’t call it luck when you do more than once in the most important carrier battle of 1942.

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There were two major issues in August 1973:
1. Orbital configuration - MEO (my father’s Timation) or GEO and high inclined orbits (AF’s 621B)
2. Whether to put the precise clocks in the satellites (Timation) or have them on the ground (621B) - repeater satellites.
Both were decided in favor of Timation.
I can go through Brad’s claim that he and 10-12 others invented GPS at the Lonely Halls Meeting over Labor Day 1973. the primary source materials don’t support it.

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@ShadowbanSlam @HeraldOfRome My father invented GPS.

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My father Roger Easton co-wrote the 1955 proposal for what became Project Vanguard which discussed using satellites for navigation. He designed Vanguard 1 which was the 1st satellite with solar cells and the tracking system Minitrack. GPS sats use solar power; tracking the sats is critical to estimating their orbits for the next day. 1/

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@johnkonrad They know who was the president during World War 11. That takes a special talent.

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@dansgoldin My father’s colleague Capt David Holmes met Glenn before he became an astronaut. He arranged for Glenn to sign these 2 documents for my dad.

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@stephen_e_meyer @areoinfo @airandspace Early memos - I inherited many documents from my father.

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@stephen_e_meyer @areoinfo @airandspace More pictures

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@Thievesbook @drdwhitehouse

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@HistoryWJacob Yes, I live about 15 miles from Yorktown. I was amused that Congress adopted a resolution to build it in 1781 and approved it in 1880. They were quick to act even back then.

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@HistoryWJacob Yorktown Victory Monument