Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

Precise positioning is increasingly critical for applications ranging from autonomous mobility to resilient infrastructure ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin modern positioning and navigation, integrating signals from multiple satellite constellations such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. Recent ...

More robust and more accurate positioning systems are needed to meet the demands of the global economy—and Australia is set to enjoy the benefits of its very own system. Global Positioning Systems ...

Swift Navigation has landed $50 million from a group of investors. The company's Skylark Precision Location software improves GPS accuracy. Global positioning systems, or GPS, are great for helping to ...

Lockheed Martin has begun building the first GPS IIIF, which introduces a regional military spot beam to increase anti-jam resistance sixtyfold. Credit: Lockheed Martin Over 50 years, the Global ...

As disruptions to GPS services increase globally, radio signals from low-Earth orbit (LEO) satellites could become reliable ...

Satellite-based navigation has so thoroughly transformed the world that it can be easy to forget the technology has only been usefully available to private operators for 25 years. In 2000, former US ...

LOS ANGELES AIR FORCE BASE, El Segundo, Calif. — The U.S. Air Force Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF-4 satellite is ready for launch aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V Launch Vehicle on May 15 ...