The Space Force is targeting $50 to $80 million per satellite — a fraction of the $250 million it costs for just one Lockheed ...

Forty years ago, the United States government made a decision that transformed the modern world: it opened the Global Positioning System (GPS) to civilian use. What began as a military technology ...

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The ancient Greek thinker Anaximander lent his prodigious talents to pre-Socratic Greek philosophy, geography, geometry, and cosmology.

Whether you're exploring uncharted trails or other remote areas, a reliable GPS unit can help keep you on track and provide essential information.

Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...

“In many parts of the world, the performance of our model is equivalent to using the state-of-the-art global ionosphere map ...

A combination of digital maps and on-vehicle sensors help self-driving vehicles figure out where they are in the world.

Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...

When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...