Exelis Geospatial Systems of Rochester, N.Y., has completed and tested two critical components of the navigation payload that has delayed the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS 3 system, the company ...

SAN FRANCISCO — Lockheed Martin engineers, preparing to build as many as 32 next-generation GPS 3 satellites for the U.S. Air Force, will spend the next several months focusing on completing the ...

The federal government unleashed technological innovation, enhanced security and improved citizen services through its development of the Global Positioning System. Phil Goldstein is a former web ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

The following is an excerpt from Pinpoint: How GPS Is Changing Technology, Culture, and Our Minds by Greg Milner. Schriever Air Force Base hides in plain sight. A half hour’s remove from Colorado ...

Figure 1: Diagram of cis-lunar space, which includes the real GPS sidelobe data collected on an HEO space vehicle. (All figures provided by the authors) As part of NASA’s increased interest in ...