For decades, the United States treated satellite navigation as a quiet monopoly, with GPS embedded in everything from ...
China's vast new space network is alarming US defence chiefs, raising fears it could shift the balance of global military ...
Low-Earth orbit (LEO) systems have emerged as a promising complement to GNSS, offering higher received power, better satellite geometry and broader spectrum options. Researchers aim to evaluate ...
The U.S. Space Force had tapped Astranis, L3Harris Technologies and Sierra Space to build prototype resilient-GPS satellites. Credit: Sierra Space A program launched in 2024 to rapidly field ...
THE TROUBLE with first-mover advantage is that it devalues quickly. Once the hard work of inventing a technology has been done, others are free to copy and improve it. Take the Global Positioning ...
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 ...
WASHINGTON — Belgian satellite manufacturer Aerospacelab has won a contract to build eight spacecraft for California-based startup Xona Space Systems, which is developing a commercial positioning, ...
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 ...
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 they used to navigate ...