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

China expects to launch the next generation of its BeiDou Navigation Satellite System by 2035, following a series of upgrades – a development that would help it vie with the US-backed Global ...

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 ...

Rise in the adoption of autonomous vehicles for several applications and growth in dependence on location-based services drive the growth ...

GPS means Global Positioning System, and it uses a constellation of satellites to help you locate where you are. The U.S. military developed a satellite-based navigation system called Transit in ...

Startup Xona Space Systems hopes to provide an unspoofable alternative to increasingly threatened GPS.

Maxar Intelligence has announced Raptor, which it says is a "first-of-its-kind" software for navigating drones in contested ...

Provides a low-power, cost-effective solution for location-based IoT applications. SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Feb 20, 2018 -- Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CDNS), and Galileo Satellite Navigation, ...

AUSTIN, Texas—Because GPS can be spoofed or jammed in combat, one geospatial intelligence company developed a drone-navigation system based on 3D maps.. Peter Wilczynski, Maxar’s chief product ...

Since the American GPS system began operating in 1993, ... now performed by microelectronics of the chip-based INS cannot maintain as continuously precise location as the space satellite-based system ...

The GNSS system leverages GPS and GPS-Aided GEO Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) to accurately track vehicles and charge users based on the actual distance traveled on highways.

The software, called Raptor, provides a terrain-based positioning system for drones in GPS-denied environments by leveraging detailed 3D models created from Maxar’s satellite imagery.