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 ...

Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.

Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

LONDON, Ohio The tractor weaves to ride the field's dips and rises while perfectly hugging the row previously cut by its black-clawed tiller, creating a seamless pattern of turned soil. But the person ...

Many people may not realize when and where Global Positioning System (GPS) technology came to fruition. The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System was first introduced by the US Air Force in the mid1960s, ...

Researchers Find Way to Use Starlink Signals As Alternative to GPS The research, which was sponsored by the Army Research Office, shows Starlink could be used as a backup to the US's Global ...

Upgrades to satellites in orbit and systems down below will bring centimeter-level accuracy to the masses. GPS has already transformed many industries and enabled whole new ones, like ride-sharing. A ...

REDLANDS, Calif., July 12, 2022 — Smartphone navigation apps have given people a greater sense of personal freedom, allowing them to efficiently venture from one unfamiliar place to another, still ...