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Imagine the bustling streets of Antwerp, where merchants navigated the sprawling city with woodcut maps. Or sailors plotting ... Unlike today’s turn-by-turn navigation, a 16th-century GPS ...

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn’t working—or gets jammed by ...

Experts emphasise that vertical positioning, or the Z-axis, has become a critical component in modern vehicle technology.

Australia’s Q-CTRL has announced the first real-world demonstration of its commercially viable quantum navigation ...

Tracking the electron concentration in the ionosphere can help correct for differences in wave speeds, but maps generated with ground-based Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers may ...