For years, the portable receivers that use Global Positioning System satellite signals for navigation have been niche products. They have been favored by hikers and other outdoors enthusiasts, by ...

Quantum properties may improve precision of object locators while adding security. Laser-based position location systems are entering a new era that is based on quantum mechanics. The research could ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

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

No, datum in this case it is not the singular form of data; it is the geodetic term for the measurement of the curvature surface of the earth with a specific center point. It is the basis for making ...

Key opportunities in the GNSS-independent PNT market include rising demand for secure navigation solutions due to GNSS jamming threats, increased deployment of LEO-based satellites, and growing use in ...

Aerojet, a GenCorp (NYSE:GY) company, announced today that its second-stage liquid engine for the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta II rocket helped boost Lockheed Martin’s GPS IIR-20(M) satellite to ...

Programmed to find the fastest route without consideration of literally anything else, driving apps endanger and infuriate us on a remarkably regular basis. By Julia Angwin Satellite signals run the ...

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 ...