A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...

She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

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

After a quiet week on the Space Coast, SpaceX will end the weekend with the launch of a Space Force GPS satellite. Here's ...

The military decided to house Space Forces Southern in Arizona because of the presence of Air Forces Southern at the ...

The effort, known as Resilient GPS, or R-GPS, began in 2024 and funded three industry teams to develop designs and early prototypes for alternative navigation satellites. The Space Force confirmed it ...

TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, said it has successfully transmitted time and tracking signals from a ground station to a ...

For decades, the United States treated satellite navigation as a quiet monopoly, with GPS embedded […] ...

In sum — what to know: Switching orbits: Starlink will re-orbit all its satellites operating at 550 km to 480 km from the Earth in 2026. Safety first: Michael Nicolls, VP of engineering at SpaceX, ...

NASA's Earth-observing satellites captured 12 significant events in 2025, revealing the planet's dynamic systems, from the Palisades fire burn scar in Los Angeles to the aftermath of a glacier ...

SpaceX plans to reposition roughly 4,400 of its Starlink satellites into a lower Earth orbit this year, a move the company says will improve space safety and reduce operational risks as orbital ...

Michael Nicholls, vice president of Starlink engineering, posted the news on social platform X, announcing the company’s plan to change the orbit of the satellites in order to reduce the chances of ...