The U.S. Global Positioning System (GPS)—the first GNSS—was developed in the early 1970s by the U.S. Department of Defense ...

The Geospatial Research Facility has a survey grade GPS unit with RTK. The Emlid Reach RS2 is available to MTU students, faculty, and staff conducting geospatial data collection and fieldwork. This ...

There’s a whole world of GPS-alikes out there. Let’s take a look. The Global Positioning System (GPS) that we all know and love flew its first satellite in the distant past of 1978 ...

Dubbed Etak, the system was simultaneously far ahead of its time and doomed to failure by the constellation of global positioning satellites being assembled overhead as it was being rolled out.

As of Wednesday (Jan. 15), the ankle bracelet program will be used to keep high-risk and repeat offenders in check. It's ...

Ever wonder how the Global Positioning System (GPS) works? This extraordinarily complex system is actually based on some simple concepts. Find out what they are in this Shockwave game.

What would happen if GPS - the Global Positioning System - stopped working? For a start, we would all have to engage our brains and pay attention to the world around us when getting from A to B.

Despite the devastating costs of interrupted PNT, this data still comes primarily from the nearly half-century-old constellation of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellites, originally developed ...

Turkish space firm Fergani Space, established by Baykar's chair Selçuk Bayraktar, launched its first satellite into space, ...

A study has introduced an advanced method for visual-inertial navigation, utilizing a single Ultra-Wideband (UWB) anchor with ...