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Far above your head, constellations of satellites are working constantly to provide the positioning, navigation, and timing systems that quietly run modern life. Known as the global navigation ...

Few people want to get lost when traveling. But if there are places where being lost feels especially unsettling, they tend ...

Advanced Navigation has released the Boreas 50 series, marking the company’s smallest fiber-optic gyroscope (FOG) inertial navigation system (INS). The new product line consists of two devices, the ...

If you find you're relying a little too much on your car's navigation system, beware: Italian researchers have discovered a way to hack into some of these systems and potentially "own" the messages ...

GPS systems today are simple, right? Your car or smartphone compares its location with a bunch of satellites, a computer does a little bit of math, and voila, you know precisely where you are. It’s ...

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 ...