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 ...

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For decades, the Global Positioning System has been the backbone of the modern world. From stock trades to power grids, aircraft to smartphones, GPS delivers the precise positioning, navigation, and ...

As they say, Big Brother is always watching. For this generation, long after the George Orwell novel was written, that phrase can be used to describe Google. We use Google in our daily lives for ...

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Scientists from the USA and Bremen have investigated how and why people suffer “death by GPS”–and what this actually means. Ultimately, the study aims to make navigation systems safer and help prevent ...

The Global Positioning System, or GPS, is used by millions of people around the world every day for everything from directions to delivery tracking. But do you ever wonder how GPS works or, more ...

Startup Xona Space Systems hopes to provide an unspoofable alternative to increasingly threatened GPS. Later this month, an inconspicuous 150-kilogram satellite is set to launch into space aboard the ...

Around 12,500 miles above our heads, the satellites that make up the Global Positioning System (GPS) quietly keep the world running. A blackout would result in almost instantaneous chaos. “You would ...