The Falcon 9 rocket sent up GPS III-9 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:53 p.m. ET, stated SpaceX. The launch window opened at 11:38 p.m. ET Tuesday, and ...
WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...
The inaccuracy of the speedometers used by most vehicles, even those in cars with the coolest gauge clusters, is well known. The good news is that most speedometers report speeds higher than the ...
In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...
The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...
As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...
My husband and I were four days into our week-long trip chasing hot springs in the Gila Wilderness and National Forest in southern New Mexico. Gray wolves had howled us to sleep each night, and one ...
The Space Force and United Launch Alliance launched an experimental satellite today, kick-starting a year of demonstrations that could bring new technology to the GPS mission and the broader ...
Scientists from the USA and Bremen have investigated how and why people suffer “death by GPS”–and what this actually means. Ultimately, the study aims to make navigation systems safer and help prevent ...
The Global Positioning System, or GPS, is used by millions of people around the world every day for everything from directions to delivery tracking. But do you ever wonder how GPS works or, more ...
Startup Xona Space Systems hopes to provide an unspoofable alternative to increasingly threatened GPS. Later this month, an inconspicuous 150-kilogram satellite is set to launch into space aboard the ...