Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for ...

GPS accuracy is so good that it's tempting to rely on it exclusively. That could be a mistake in abnomal traffic conditions.

After years of setbacks, the Pentagon's next-gen GPS control effort remains troubled, raising new questions about cost, ...

To date, the Pentagon has awarded Raytheon nearly $4.6 billion for OCX development over roughly 15 years. The program was ...

It will be fascinating to see which GPS alternatives, if any, take a dominant role in non-GPS settings, or will it be a ...

Schriever Space Force Base, Colo. Of all the missions the Space Force performs daily for a grateful nation, there is none more ubiquitous and essential than GPS. Today’s soldiers and sailors depend on ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is moving forward with plans to deploy smaller, cheaper GPS satellites based on commercial designs to add to its current network of larger military satellites. The ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

The U.S. Space Force launched its GPS III-9 satellite (SV09) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in ...