Our widespread reliance on a vulnerable technology should be a wake-up call. A single sustained outage could cost the U.S.

With the final GPS III satellite scheduled to launch in March, the United States is completing the most significant upgrade to its positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure in more than ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have revolutionised location-based services by providing positioning information through satellite signals. In urban environments, however, positioning ...

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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 ...

The Global Positioning System, or GPS, is pretty much indispensable these days. Phones, tablets, self-driving cars, and drones depend on a network of geostationary satellites high above the earth’s ...

Think GPS runs the world? China's BeiDou is a fast-rising rival with military and disaster uses, plus a rapidly expanding ...

An outage or loss of GPS satellites is estimated to cost the U.S. military and economy upward of $1 billion a day. Pentagon leaders believe that estimate is conservative, leading the U.S. Space Force ...

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

Topcon Positioning Systems and Fixposition have entered an agreement to collaborate on integrated technology for future product offerings.This press release features multimedia. View the full release ...