The Space Force pressed ahead with R-GPS using the funding it had, even after Congress declined to approve the additional $77 million. A year later, the dynamic has reversed: the Space Force says it ...

West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

The pilots flying into Denver International Airport could tell something was wrong. In urgent calls to air traffic controllers, they reported that the Global Positioning System they used to navigate ...

For decades, the United States has had a monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing technology with its Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of satellites operated by the military that ...

Definition The Global Positioning System (GPS) uses a network of satellites to provide electronic signals that enable a receiver to accurately determine its position anywhere on Earth. The satellites ...

New cutting-edge science into how lightning affects Earth’s upper atmosphere could help the U.S. military fend off hostile GPS (global positioning system) attacks, say researchers at the University of ...

The GPS-III satellite will be carried into medium-Earth orbit by a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape ...

David J. Podlesney, who is GPS IIR/IIR-M program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Valley Forge, Pa., has been inducted into the Global Positioning System (GPS) Hall of Fame at the U.S. Air ...