The war with Iran is laying bare the dangers posed to commercial ships and planes by the rise of GPS interference in and around conflict zones.

Satellite navigation and tracking via GPS has become a critical link in the world's rapidly growing logistics and freight carrying ecosystem. Companies use GPS to track trucks and keep them on time ...

The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for navigation alternatives.

GPS is a radio navigation system that uses radio waves between satellites and a receiver inside your phone to provide location and time information to any software that needs to use it. To use GPS on ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched a GPS 3 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida, June 17, 2021. Credit: U.S. Space Force For decades, the Global Positioning ...

Getting stuck in traffic is the proverbial nightmare. Too many cars on the road, too many red lights, too many people all trying to get to the same location, all make traffic something we dread. As ...

New research shows that Sat Nav systems are helping keep older drivers on the roads for longer. The study reveals that over 65s with a poorer sense of direction rely more on help from GPS navigation ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...