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 ...

The navigation satellite system mainly consists of three components: the space segment, the ground segment, and the user ...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning techniques have evolved significantly over recent decades, spanning from traditional single-frequency methods to advanced multi-constellation and ...

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called ...

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 ...

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 ...

On Sunday, a plane carrying European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen was reportedly forced to land in Bulgaria using paper ...

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 ...

What if GPS had existed in 1565? No satellites or microelectronics, sure—but let’s play along. Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps.

Marking the occasion of the sixty years since its foundation in 1951, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is pleased to announce that its 60th Anniversary Award will be given to the ...