A few weeks ago, China launched the final satellite in its BeiDou-3 satellite positioning system. Didn’t know that China had its own GPS? How about Europe’s Galileo, Russia’s GLONASS, or Japan’s QZSS?

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

Thanks to GPS, your car, your phone, even your watch knows exactly where you are on the planet, by listening to a satellite signal from 12,000 miles over your head. GPS is always on, you don't pay ...

Can GPS support a greener, more sustainable planet? The answer is an emphatic “yes,” and it is already doing so today. GPS has become a fundamental technology across nearly every sector of the U.S.

Two stories of how our reliance on GPS becomes problematic in regions experiencing war. In Ukraine, the power grid's use of GPS becomes a liability. And in the Middle East today, GPS "spoofing" causes ...

The network of satellites and incredibly sophisticated mobile technologies that power GPS navigation has become a ubiquitous ...

Illustrated here are the two basic types of satellite-based earthmoving systems. The motor grader is equipped with a machine-control system, and the worker is carrying a Topcon Pocket 3D ...

Learn how GPS in sports tracks athlete movement, workload, and performance using wearables, metrics, and real-time data ...

Two recent court decisions — one in New York and the other in Wisconsin — highlight the continuing struggles that courts around the country are having over law enforcement’s use of GPS devices to ...