The Space Force is targeting $50 to $80 million per satellite — a fraction of the $250 million it costs for just one Lockheed ...

Forty years ago, the United States government made a decision that transformed the modern world: it opened the Global Positioning System (GPS) to civilian use. What began as a military technology ...

More fire departments, including the Wichita Fire Department, are implementing an alert system to keep fire officials safe.

Smart, self-healing systems in Florida helped save more than 300 million minutes of total lost outage time during Hurricane ...

Autonomous vehicles can’t become fully reliable until they precisely know their location. Here’s how real-time kinematic ...

Used correctly, a GPS – or global positioning system – can be a handy tool ... a map and compass should be in your pack as a ...

Rescue divers often rely on rope signals to communicate with their surface guides. An expert diver – and UVA Engineering ...

In a paper published this week in Nature, Google researchers demonstrated they were able to use GPS signal measurements ...

A combination of digital maps and on-vehicle sensors help self-driving vehicles figure out where they are in the world.

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...

"We use the standard GPS signals you know—the navigation signals that work for your car and your cell phone," explained ...