September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed ...

Few everyday technologies have had the kind of revolutionary impact that the Global Positioning System (GPS) has. From civilians to the military, from precision scientific studies to urban ...

The most popular examples of GNSS include Europe’s Galileo, the USA’s NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS), Russia’s Globalnaya Navigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema (GLONASS) and China ...

A new Bluetooth-based positioning system could offer health care systems a low-energy, low-cost method of tracking older adults' mobility, according to a new study published in the open-access ...

successfully launched its fourth Global Positioning System replenishment satellite (GPS IIR) on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station, Fla. This spacecraft will join 27 other ...

A global GPS-based earthquake monitoring system can provide timelier and more accurate warnings than traditional seismic networks when powerful earthquakes strike, a new study suggests. It could ...

Recently, a study introduced a novel method that significantly enhances the precision and efficiency of precise orbit determination and clock estimation the Global Positioning System (GPS), BeiDou ...

Northrop Grumman has successfully tested in flight the new Embedded Global Positioning System (GPS) / Inertial Navigation System (INS) Modernization, also known as EGI-M, that will equip the F-22 ...