Military leaders have been warning of the fragility of GPS for years and researchers have been working on a variety of solutions, from quantum clocks to inertial navigation. The Air Force is adding a ...

Members of the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) deployed a novel tool to Afghanistan last month, giving warfighters the ability to combine Global Positioning System (GPS) capabilities with ...

In about every five years, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the British Geological Survey update the World Magnetic Model (WMM). However, the latest update is quite ...

Engineering researchers have developed a method to use signals broadcast by Starlink internet service satellites to accurately locate a position here on Earth, much like GPS does. It is the first time ...

The U.S. Air Force, concerned that adversaries might target its fleet of GPS satellites in wartime, is looking into Earth’s magnetic field as an alternative, according to Defense One.Accurate and ...

As the solar system, the earth is also made of countless wonders. One of them is the feat of variation in its magnetic field. Earth is surrounded by an immense magnetic field, called the magnetosphere ...

The omnipresent system that people use for navigation and positioning is increasingly vulnerable. Can it be improved?

Update: Blue Ghost landed on the moon. Firefly's Blue Ghost lander touched down on the lunar surface early Sunday and one of the experiments mounted onboard will try to do something almost ...

While state-of-the-art navigation has become a must-have these days, not everybody is a big fan of Google Maps, so stand-alone GPS units like those from Garmin still have a very successful niche of ...