Every 19 years, the Global Positioning System resets a measure of time built into its program. The latest rollover is Saturday and NPR's Scott Simon asks cybersecurity expert Frank Cilluffo about it.

Global Positioning Systems turned 50 years old last year with the 'golden' anniversary of the US Air Force being given approval in 1973 to develop the Navstar GPS.

/ The Undependable Global Positioning System does not believe in God, because it believes in satellites and in particle physics and entrepreneurship. / Use at your own risk, you tourists of oblivion.

Galileo, a European rival to military global positioning systems operated by the United States and Russia, will be able to locate objects or people to within 16.4 ft. (5 m).

To learn more about how GPS calculations are done, check out “How Global Positioning Systems Work” by Ron White and Tim Downs. You’ll find some useful and informative diagrams, too.

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a technology that can provide location inputs to a GIS system, to be added to other inputs such as satellite imagery and topographic maps.

A China-only regional system, it was superseded by BeiDou-2 which began launches in 2007 which began the march towards more global coverage. 2015 marked the start of BeiDou-3 deployment, with the ...

One of the fundamental technologies of modern gadgets is the Global Positioning System (GPS). Using signals from satellites orbiting the earth, a GPS receiver can pin down its location with remarka… ...

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a system of 24 satellites developed by the US Air Force and first made available for civilian use in 1990.

New cutting-edge science into how lightning affects Earth’s upper atmosphere could help the U.S. military fend off hostile GPS (global positioning system) attacks, say researchers at the ...