The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a surveying method used to precisely locate a three-dimensional position (latitude, longitude, and elevation) anywhere on the surface of the Earth. The system ...

One of the fundamental technologies of modern gadgets is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Using signals from satellites orbiting the earth, a GPS receiver can pin down its location with remarka… ...

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 ...

Global Positioning System (GPS) is the dominant positioning technology today, but its use indoors is limited due to the difficulty in communicating with GPS satellites.

The relatively new Global Positioning System receivers aided the U.S. and coalition forces in winning Operation Desert Storm after only four days of ground combat.

GPS is a space-based technology for everyday use. GPS stands for Global Positioning System and we'd be lost without it (quite literally). Originally called Navstar GPS, this space-based technology ...

Where would we be without the global positioning system? OK, that's a rhetorical question with a pretty awful pun to boot. But the GPS that we know and love (and often heavily rely on) is but one ...

Global Positioning Systems turned 50 years old last year with the 'golden' anniversary of the US Air Force being given approval in 1973 to develop the Navstar GPS.