GPS looks simple on the map, but it is really a timing problem where tiny errors become huge distances unless the math cancels them out. This video breaks down how receivers solve for location and ...

With the final GPS III satellite scheduled to launch in March, the United States is completing the most significant upgrade to its positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) infrastructure in more than ...

GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in ...

Thanks to GPS, your car, your phone, even your watch knows exactly where you are on the planet, by listening to a satellite signal from 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on, you don't pay ...

Trimble now offers heavy and highway contractors the widest selection of location and precise GPS solutions on the market with the introduction of seven new GPS Receivers and Smart GPS Antennas. The ...

Europe’s satellite navigation system Galileo is already in use worldwide, usable by itself or in combination with the U.S. GPS. Now a combined Galileo–GPS positioning fix has been achieved in space — ...

These days, GPS positioning is a fact of life for many people. GPS receivers are built into everything from phones to tablets to cameras, and standalone GPS devices loaded with maps continue to be ...

Finding GPS unreliable in certain situations, the U.S. government is placing a high priority on developing a more reliable real-time position tracking technology whose signals won’t disappear in blind ...

In a patent application filed in 2017 and made public last month (International publication number WO2018222274-“Technologies for Vehicle Positioning”), Tesla describes a technology that it believes ...

With the advent of self-driving vehicles, GPS accuracy is becoming increasingly important and Tesla believes that it developed a technology that allows for a more accurate positioning by sharing data ...

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

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