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 ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin plan to conduct its first-ever laser communications test from a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite. If successful, this technology could ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's space agency said on Sunday it successfully launched a navigation satellite on its new flagship H3 ...

Many people may not realize when and where Global Positioning System (GPS) technology came to fruition. The NAVSTAR Global Positioning System was first introduced by the US Air Force in the mid1960s, ...

GPS stands for Global Positioning System and we'd be lost without it (quite literally). Originally called Navstar GPS, this space-based technology is owned by the U.S. government and operated by the U ...

It completes a navigation satellite constellation decades in the making. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. China successfully ...

U.S. Marines set up a Multi-Mission Terminal that provides access to satellite communications for the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge. Credit: U.S. Marine Corps WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force ...

Nearly 50 years since its founding, the U.S. Global Positioning System is in danger of losing its cachet as the world’s gold-standard location service. The U.S. military, which runs GPS, is upgrading ...

Over 7 billion devices worldwide, including nearly 900 million in the United States, use GPS technology developed in the country on a daily basis. The GPS is a satellite-based hyperbolic navigation ...

Like many people, I’ve come to take for granted the availability of navigation systems in cars and handheld devices based on the Global Positioning System. But it was all abstract until I recently ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s space agency said on ...