The debate is heating up in the USA over the fate of the terrestrial Long Range Navigation (Loran-C) network as a back-up mode for satellite-based navigation systems. An independent study commissioned ...

Telecom industry, federal agencies and specialists say growing risks to the Global Positioning System increase the need for it. In his fiscal 2010 budget, President Obama killed funding for a system ...

Here I ponder my relatively useless Micrologic Loran-C receiver — lower right. Now a $146 Garmin handheld GPS tracks position underway. Loran — short for long-range navigation — was developed in the ...

The U.S. Coast Guard's Director of Prevention Policy announced Thursday publication in the Federal Register of plans to cease broadcasting the North American Loran-C signal Feb. 8. As a result of ...

A LORAN signal is more than a million times stronger than GPS, making it nearly impossible to jam. A land-based LORAN system could be used to complement space-based satellites. The security of the ...

While the U.S. forges ahead to upgrade its entire Loran-C radionavigation system, Europe is confronted with the prospect of losing its Loran-C/Eurofix services that became operational only last year.

Vice Adm. Robert J. Papp speaks at a ceremony to mark the shutting down of the LORAN-C signal at the Navigation Center in Alexandria, Va., Feb. 8. Both the maritime and aviation communities have used ...