Wattenberg, F., K. Erickson, J. Helms, K. DeGregory, and Hise O. Gibson. "Analyzing and Using Data From Global Positioning Systems and Digital Imagery in Mathematics Courses." Paper presented at the ...

WASHINGTON — You can’t always trust your GPS gadget. As scientists have long known, perplexing electrical activity in the upper atmospheric zone called the ionosphere can tamper with signals from GPS ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...

For decades, the United States has had a monopoly on positioning, navigation and timing technology with its Global Positioning System (GPS), a constellation of satellites operated by the military that ...

Upgrades to satellites in orbit and systems down below will bring centimeter-level accuracy to the masses. GPS has already transformed many industries and enabled whole new ones, like ride-sharing. A ...

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 ...

During an unprecedented solar eruption last December, researchers at Cornell University confirmed solar radio bursts can have a serious impact on the Global Positioning System (GPS) and other ...

The Global Positioning System, or GPS, is pretty much indispensable these days. Phones, tablets, self-driving cars, and drones depend on a network of geostationary satellites high above the earth’s ...

David J. Podlesney, who is GPS IIR/IIR-M program manager for Lockheed Martin Space Systems, Valley Forge, Pa., has been inducted into the Global Positioning System (GPS) Hall of Fame at the U.S. Air ...

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 ...