Editing Global Positioning System (section)

=== Awards ===
[[File:Dr Gladys West.jpg|alt=Air Force Space Commander presents Gladys West with an award as she is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame for her GPS work on December 6, 2018.|thumb|AFSPC Vice Commander Lt. Gen. D. T. Thompson presents Gladys West with an award as she is inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame.]]
On February 10, 1993, the [[National Aeronautic Association]] selected the GPS Team as winners of the 1992 [[Collier Trophy|Robert J. Collier Trophy]], the US's most prestigious aviation award. This team combines researchers from the Naval Research Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force, the [[Aerospace Corporation]], [[Rockwell International]] Corporation, and [[IBM]] Federal Systems Company. The citation honors them "for the most significant development for safe and efficient navigation and surveillance of air and spacecraft since the introduction of radio navigation 50&nbsp;years ago".

Two GPS developers received the [[United States National Academy of Engineering|National Academy of Engineering]] [[Charles Stark Draper Prize]] for 2003:
* [[Ivan Getting]], emeritus president of [[The Aerospace Corporation]] and an engineer at [[Massachusetts Institute of Technology]], established the basis for GPS, improving on the [[World War II]] land-based radio system called LORAN (''Lo''ng-range ''R''adio ''A''id to ''N''avigation).
* [[Bradford Parkinson]], professor of [[aeronautics]] and [[astronautics]] at [[Stanford University]], conceived the present satellite-based system in the early 1960s and developed it in conjunction with the U.S. Air Force. Parkinson served twenty-one years in the Air Force, from 1957 to 1978, and retired with the rank of colonel.

GPS developer [[Roger L. Easton]] received the [[National Medal of Technology]] on February 13, 2006.<ref>{{cite web |url-status=live |agency=[[United States Naval Research Laboratory]] |url=http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/nrl-par112205.php |title=President announces Roger Easton recipient of National Medal of Technology |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071011075824/http://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-11/nrl-par112205.php |archive-date=October 11, 2007 |date=November 22, 2005 |website=EurekAlert! }}</ref> [[Francis X. Kane]] (Col. USAF, ret.) was inducted into the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame at Lackland A.F.B., San Antonio, Texas, March 2, 2010, for his role in space technology development and the engineering design concept of GPS conducted as part of Project 621B. In 1998, GPS technology was inducted into the [[Space Foundation]] [[Space Technology Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title= Inducted Technologies / 1998: Global Positioning System (GPS) |website=Space Technology Hall of Fame |url=http://www.spacetechhalloffame.org/inductees_1998_Global_Positioning_System.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120612064112/http://www.spacetechhalloffame.org/inductees_1998_Global_Positioning_System.html |archive-date=June 12, 2012 }}</ref>

On October 4, 2011, the [[International Astronautical Federation]] (IAF) awarded the Global Positioning System (GPS) its 60th Anniversary Award, nominated by IAF member, the American Institute for Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA). The IAF Honors and Awards Committee recognized the uniqueness of the GPS program and the exemplary role it has played in building international collaboration for the benefit of humanity.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.gps.gov/news/2011/10/IAC-award/|title=GPS Program Receives International Award|date=October 5, 2011|website=GPS.gov |first1=Richard A. |last1=Williams Jr. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170513140254/http://www.gps.gov/news/2011/10/IAC-award/|archive-date=May 13, 2017|access-date=December 24, 2018}}</ref> On December 6, 2018, Gladys West was inducted into the Air Force Space and Missile Pioneers Hall of Fame in recognition of her work on an extremely accurate geodetic Earth model, which was ultimately used to determine the orbit of the GPS constellation.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Mathematician inducted into Space and Missiles Pioneers Hall of Fame|url=https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1707464/mathematician-inducted-into-space-and-missiles-pioneers-hall-of-fame/|access-date=August 3, 2021|website=Air Force Space Command |date=December 7, 2018 |language=en-US|archive-date=June 3, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190603171222/https://www.afspc.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/1707464/mathematician-inducted-into-space-and-missiles-pioneers-hall-of-fame/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=dinh vi gps |url=https://dinhvigps.vn/ |access-date=2025-01-05 |website= |language=en}}</ref> On February 12, 2019, four founding members of the project were awarded the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering with the chair of the awarding board stating: "Engineering is the foundation of civilisation; ...They've re-written, in a major way, the infrastructure of our world."<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47212151|title=Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering: GPS pioneers lauded |first=Jonathan|last=Amos|work=BBC News|date=February 12, 2019|access-date=April 6, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406234539/https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-47212151|archive-date=April 6, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref>