Over 4 billion users of GPS use the system daily, although more fundamental upgrades are being inspired by a lesser-known ...

The U.S. Space Force launched its GPS III-9 satellite (SV09) on a SpaceX Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, adding another spacecraft to the constellation that supports ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force has ended an exploratory effort to add smaller, lower-cost navigation satellites to bolster the Global Positioning System, shelving a program that had been identified ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — After decades of development, a rocket switch in March, and a last-minute weather delay, the U.S. Space Force finally launched the last satellite of the world’s most modern GPS ...

The rise of GPS vulnerability is putting more resilient, atom-based navigational tools on the map. In late September, a Spanish military plane carrying the country’s defense minister to a base in ...

GPS 3 SV10 launches from Cape Canaveral, Fla. in the early hours of April 21. Credit: Lockheed Martin WASHINGTON — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off early April 21 from Cape Canaveral Space Force ...

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 ...