Ever wonder how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works? This extraordinarily complex system is actually based on some simple concepts. Find out what they are in this Shockwave game.

A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system ... Creating a global satellite navigation system is incredibly expensive. While the economic ...

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 ...

(No wonder it's been so quickly replaced by the satellite-dependent Global Positioning System, or GPS!) But the basic principles behind celestial navigation are fairly straightforward. Here are a ...

and students have furthered all aspects of satellite navigation technology from the antenna design, advanced radio processing, and the digital signal processing. This work initiated with the US Global ...

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 ...

Japan has launched a navigation satellite on its flagship H3 rocket as the country seeks to have a precise positioning system of its own ...

Japan plans to launch two more navigation satellites to have a seven-satellite system by March 2026 in order to have a more precise global positioning capability without relying on foreign ...