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 ...

Many of us take navigation for granted; when we're lost, we simply pull out our phones and open Google Maps to find where we are. You could even ask Siri to give you directions if you don't want to be ...

Einstein’s theory of special relativity tells us that for a moving object, time passes more slowly than for a stationary ...

A Foundation for Modernized Positioning. So, GPS OCX. It’s basically the brains behind the next generation of the Global ...

Indoor localisation and positioning systems (IPS) have emerged as pivotal technologies for determining the positions of objects and individuals within complex indoor environments, where conventional ...

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 ...

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.

ARLINGTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems, Inc. announced today it has reached definitive agreements for the proposed acquisitions of Collins Aerospace’s military Global Positioning System (GPS) ...

In modern aviation, redundancy saves lives. Most commercial aircraft, for example, now use advanced positioning and navigation systems to support everything from heading and reference information to ...

A U.S. Space Force technician conducts GPS interference training with a GPS electromagnetic attack system at Schriever Space Force Base, Colorado. U.S. adversaries will attempt to jam GPS signals ...