GPS denial is no longer a theoretical future threat. It is the environment in which modern forces increasingly operate. China has invested heavily in space and counterspace capabilities designed to ...

We just finished the year that marked the 30th anniversary of America’s Global Positioning System reaching full operational capacity. What began as a military tool to enable U.S. military forces to ...

The term "GPS" has become ubiquitous in American life. You know it as the foundational technology of navigation apps like Google Maps and Waze, but in most of the world, GPS is just a meaningless trio ...

Micro-Magic has released the U4930 series, a reliable and cost-effective six-axis MEMS inertial measurement module that can be widely used in navigation, control and measurement fields for vehicles, ...

Liftoff of the GPS III-SV09 mission occurred at 11:53 p.m. ET on Tuesday (Jan. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

The Falcon 9 rocket sent up GPS III-9 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 11:53 p.m. ET, stated SpaceX. The launch window opened at 11:38 p.m. ET Tuesday, and ...

GM’s L96 V8 is known as a heavy-duty workhorse, but this teardown shows it isn’t immune to catastrophic failure. L96 V8 engine suffered catastrophic failure despite reputation for reliability and ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...

The inaccuracy of the speedometers used by most vehicles, even those in cars with the coolest gauge clusters, is well known. The good news is that most speedometers report speeds higher than the ...

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 ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

Our everyday GPS struggles in “urban canyons,” where skyscrapers bounce satellite signals, confusing even advanced navigation systems. NTNU scientists created SmartNav, combining satellite corrections ...