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.
Global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) are vital for positioning autonomous vehicles, buses, drones, and outdoor robots. Yet its accuracy often degrades in dense urban areas due to signal blockage ...
The company has announced TeraWave, a new communications network of more than 5,400 satellites designed to rival Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starlink and Amazon’s Project Kuiper. The initiative, which plans to ...
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 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 […] ...
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 ...
SpaceX is moving over 4,000 Starlink satellites to a lower orbit. An exec at Elon Musk's rocket company said it would help prevent collisions with rival satellites. SpaceX said last month a Starlink ...