Navigation & Timekeeping · Recorded milestone
Full-accuracy civilian GPS
Recorded year2000
The US switches off GPS Selective Availability, making civilian fixes about ten times sharper overnight and starting a sat-nav boom.
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Dataset updated 2026-10-18. This individual record has not been separately re-reviewed.