Maxar Intelligence developed software that enables an autonomous system to navigate with precision even without GPS. The green line represents the drone’s true location in the real world on a specific ...

For decades, GPS has been the cornerstone of modern navigation, guiding aircraft, vehicles, troops and commercial systems across the globe. As digital warfare intensifies, satellite signals are ...

We’ve come to expect the U.S.-based global positioning system (GPS) to be available and ubiquitous for the countless military, commercial, and consumer applications dependent on it. Its diverse uses ...

In a nutshell: Today's typical navigation-grade motion sensors are about the size of a grapefruit, helping steer ships, planes, and vehicles in conjunction with GPS signals. This means they always ...

NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is building a quantum sensor designed to measure Earth’s gravity field from orbit, a technology that could eventually help spacecraft and aircraft determine their ...

Vatn Systems has released INStinct, an inertial navigation system (INS) designed to provide GPS-free navigation for maritime operations. The defense technology company, which manufactures autonomous ...

Increasingly, military and commercial aircraft can't rely on GPS. The best alternative just might be quantum navigation.