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Yep: "Radio waves are electromagnetic energy, which means they travel at the speed of light (about 186,000 miles per second, 300,000 km per second in a vacuum). The receiver can figure out how far the signal has traveled by timing how long it took the signal to arrive." - http://electronics.howstuffworks.com/gadgets/travel/gps2.htm



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