Satellites changed the reference from the surface of the Earth to its center of mass around which all satellites orbit regardless of surface irregularities. The first satellite navigation system, TRANSIT, selected in the 1960s as its reference meridian on an Earth-centered ellipsoid the longitude on the NAD27 ellipsoid of its development laboratory halfway between Washington, D.C. and Baltimore, Maryland. These identical numeric longitudes at a location remote from Greenwich caused 0° of longitude on an Earth-centered ellipsoid to be 5.3" east of the astronomic Greenwich prime meridian through the Airy transit circle. At the latitude of Greenwich, this amounts to 102.5 metres. This was officially accepted by the Bureau International de l'Heure (BIH) in 1984 via its BTS84 (BIH Terrestrial System) that later became WGS84 (World Geodetic System 1984) and the various ITRFs (International Terrestrial Reference Systems)