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.

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 ...

He worked to develop an atomic clock that is essential to global positioning systems and helped confirm a rare state of matter predicted based on work by Albert Einstein. By Dylan Loeb McClain The ...

The research, which was sponsored by the Army Research Office, shows Starlink could be used as a backup to the US's Global Positioning System. The US Global Positioning System (GPS) is a crucial tool ...

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 ...

GPS is an acronym for Global Positioning System. It is a satellite navigation system providing distance, time, and position measurements in the world coordinate system. To put it simply, it is a ...

Marking the occasion of the sixty years since its foundation in 1951, the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is pleased to announce that its 60th Anniversary Award will be given to the ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ordered two additional Global Positioning System satellites from Lockheed Martin. The $509.7 million contract covers GPS III satellites 21 and 22, which are part ...

Didi Global has been granted a patent for systems and methods to identify target roads. The technology involves obtaining position information from vehicles in a target region, generating a heat map ...