September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

Dr Gladys West, the mathematician whose work laid the foundations for modern GPS and GNSS technology, has died at the age of ...

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 ...

Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

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

Lockheed Martin has begun building the first GPS IIIF, which introduces a regional military spot beam to increase anti-jam resistance sixtyfold. Credit: Lockheed Martin Over 50 years, the Global ...

For decades, the Global Positioning System (GPS) has maintained a de facto monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing, because it’s cheap and already integrated into billions of devices around the ...

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 was going haywire, ...

The Global Positioning System runs the modern world. But it is under daily attack. This year alone, researchers say, more than 60,000 commercial flights have been hit by bogus GPS signals, which can ...

Satellite-based navigation has so thoroughly transformed the world that it can be easy to forget the technology has only been usefully available to private operators for 25 years. In 2000, former US ...