The Space Force pressed ahead with R-GPS using the funding it had, even after Congress declined to approve the additional $77 million. A year later, the dynamic has reversed: the Space Force says it ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

ORLANDO, Fla. — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched a U.S. Space Force GPS satellite late Jan. 27, continuing a string of ...

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

Gladys West, who has died aged 95, was the daughter of poor black farmers who in the 1950s and 1960s was instrumental in ...

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System they used to navigate ...

Definition The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a network of satellites to provide electronic signals that enable a receiver to accurately determine its position anywhere on Earth. The satellites ...

Lockheed Martin inform that the U.S. Air Force has awarded it more than $245 million in contract options to complete production of its seventh and eighth next-generation Global Positioning System ...

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) ...

Global positioning systems – GPS technology – has been around for decades, but still has a science fiction feel, and is only now being used by private industry. There have been grandiose predictions ...