GPS has become indispensable both for military operations and everyday American life. But our reliance on it makes us ...

Think GPS runs the world? China's BeiDou is a fast-rising rival with military and disaster uses, plus a rapidly expanding ...

The US Space Force’s “Resilient GPS” program could have dramatically strengthened GPS reliability—at the same moment adversaries like China have sought to undermine it.

Commentary: Recent years have seen the establishment in the U.S. and other countries of government aspiring to regulate the commercial space industry.

This article was originally published by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty and is reprinted with permission. When a Russian ...

The Space Force pressed ahead with R-GPS using the funding it had, even after Congress declined to approve the additional $77 million. A year later, the dynamic has reversed: the Space Force says it ...

SpaceX launched an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida on Tuesday night (Jan. 27). A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the GPS III-SV09 spacecraft lifted off from Cape ...

Our widespread reliance on a vulnerable technology should be a wake-up call. A single sustained outage could cost the U.S.

The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to strengthen the existing GPS constellation, reports Space News. But funding for the next phase ...

In 2022, a US Navy amphibious assault ship crossed nearly 1,800 miles of open ocean without relying on GPS, deliberately shutting off modern navigation systems to prove older skills still matter. This ...

After the 12-day Israel-Iran conflict of June 2025, Tehran appears to have accelerated a strategic pivot toward Beijing in the space and navigation domain. With alleged GPS disruption exposing ...