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Last year, just before the Fourth of July holiday, the US Space Force officially took ownership of a new operating system for the GPS navigation network, raising hopes that one of the military’s most ...

Modern smartphones have replaced so many standalone consumer devices, including cameras, MP3 and media players, calculators, flashlights, and even dedicated GPS units. But while they certainly do a ...

From smartphones to cars to critical infrastructure, these early satellites power some of the most modern technologies of ...

Since the start of the U.S.-Israel war with Iran on Feb. 28, interference with location-based services has surged across the Persian Gulf. Such electronic interference is often a defensive ...

In my latest Signal Spot, I had my Villanova students explore machine learning techniques to see if we could accurately ...

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The U.S. Space Force on April 20 announced it is canceling its long-delayed GPS ground control system after lengthy speculation on its future. The Raytheon-built Global Positionin ...

The European Space Agency has achieved a European first with Celeste, successfully transmitting a navigation signal from low ...

The U.S. Space Force awarded Lockheed Martin a $105 million contract to support ground control operations for the next ...

Nevada quietly signed an agreement earlier this year with a company that collects location data from cellphones, allowing ...