The Space Force wants its next fleet of GPS satellites to be smaller, cheaper and more resilient - and it's looking to a mix of commercial and defense firms to help design those spacecraft. Four ...

Think GPS runs the world? China's BeiDou is a fast-rising rival with military and disaster uses, plus a rapidly expanding ...

The US Space Force’s “Resilient GPS” program could have dramatically strengthened GPS reliability—at the same moment ...

The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the ...

The Space Force pressed ahead with R-GPS using the funding it had, even after Congress declined to approve the additional $77 million. A year later, the dynamic has reversed: the Space Force says it ...

For the second time in six months, SpaceX will deploy a US military satellite that was sitting in storage, waiting for a slot on United Launch Alliance’s launch schedule. Space Systems Command, which ...

What is the shortest route to the next stop or the agreed meeting point? Global positioning systems (GPS) have become a routine part of everyday life for most people. Until now, however, the minimum ...

Raytheon Company [NYSE: RTN] and Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] have successfully completed the first launch readiness exercise for the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS III satellites. The exercise ...

GPS trackers and AirTags look like they do the same thing. They don’t. One is a live-positioning tool; the other is a Bluetooth breadcrumb. A GPS tracker talks directly to satellites orbiting 12,000 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Space Force wants to launch dozens of small, cheap satellites as part of its Resilient GPS program, meant to augment the ...