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 ...
Gladys West, the mathematician and technologist whose work was key to the creation of the Global Positioning System (GPS), has died at the age of 95. She passed away on Saturday, January 17. West was ...
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 ...
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 ...
What if the future of IoT didn’t depend on Wi-Fi? Imagine deploying a fleet of sensors in the remotest corners of the world, tracking wildlife, monitoring environmental changes, or managing logistics, ...
DUBAI, UAE, Nov. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- UNIBIRD has launched the N200 VIO Navigation Module, a groundbreaking solution that enables drones to navigate and self-localize using AI vision. This ...
GPS trackers and AirTags look like they do the same thing. They don’t. One is a live-positioning tool; the other is a Bluetooth breadcrumb. A GPS tracker talks directly to satellites orbiting 12,000 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Paul-Smith Goodson is an analyst covering quantum computing and AI. Satellite GPS is a vital navigation technology designed for ...
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The Space Force and United Launch Alliance launched an experimental satellite today, kick-starting a year of demonstrations that could bring new technology to the GPS mission and the broader ...
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 ...