Swift Navigation, the leader in centimeter-accurate positioning for vehicle autonomy, robotics, and precision logistics, today announced the completion of its $50 million Series E financing round. Led ...

Upholding the principles of “superior construction, excellent management, and substantial development,” the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) implements multifaceted strategies to ensure ...

Your phone's GPS is an incredibly accurate system that helps find your precise location instantly, but how exactly is it able to find you anywhere in the world?

The Global Positioning System started out decades ago as a satellite-based network for military location and navigation, but in the past few years it’s spawned a host of civilian applications ...

Three pilot satellites could be sent into space by around 2027, followed by a “system networking satellite” launch around 2029. And by 2035, the creation of the next iteration of BeiDou should ...

Airbus has teamed with SandboxAQ, a Silicon Valley company specializing in artificial intelligence and quantum sensing, to ...

DARPA has unveiled its plan for the future, and it includes a brand new global positioning, navigation, and timing system (GPS) that doesn't depend on satellites.

The idea that GPS embedded in your car could tell you where to go, as opposed to your partner or ride co-pilot, was a far-fetched idea until the first map-based car navigation system was ...

A system that improves the accuracy of the GPS satellite navigation system. A satellite's positioning accuracy is impeded by errors in its clock and signal delays caused by atmospheric conditions ...

With Ranging Mode (R-Mode), the German Aerospace Center DLR is working with partners to develop an alternative to satellite-based navigation systems. R-Mode uses existing infrastructures of ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) has proved a boon for those with a bad sense of direction, but the satellite-based system isn’t without its shortcomings. Something as simple as going indoors ...

INS has long suffered from the inability to provide as accurate a location as satellite navigation systems as the gyroscope and acceleration capabilities now performed by microelectronics of the ...