West's work on modeling the Earth's shape assisted with the development of GPS, today used by an estimated 4 billion people.

The Space Force pressed ahead with R-GPS using the funding it had, even after Congress declined to approve the additional $77 million. A year later, the dynamic has reversed: the Space Force says it ...

Increasing incidents of interference with aviation, maritime and other satellite telecommunications services mean States need to urgently enhance their protection of a critical radio-frequency band, ...

With the rapid development of GPS (Global Positioning System) techniques, GPS gets wider application in many fields. GPS has features such as high precision, global coverage, convenience, high quality ...

Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing ...

Abstract: GPS has evolved into a vital component of our critical infrastructure. Originally developed over 50 years ago as a military navigation system, it has since been transformed into an ...

Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) underpin modern positioning and navigation, integrating signals from multiple satellite constellations such as GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. Recent ...

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 not ...

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. Share on Facebook (opens in a new ...

Sometimes technology is indistinguishable from magic. Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global ...

NavIC stands for Navigation with Indian Constellation. It is also called IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System). NavIC is an alternative to the American Global Positioning System (GPS) ...

Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning techniques have evolved significantly over recent decades, spanning from traditional single-frequency methods to advanced multi-constellation and ...