Unlike on Earth there aren’t dozens of satellites whizzing around Mars to provide satellite navigation functionality. Recently NASA’s JPL engineers tried something with the ...

Oscilloquartz began a collaborative tech validation alongside Tupaia, showing that carriers and enterprises can attain highly accurate GNSS location by leveraging timing systems already in place. In ...

A new technology lets NASA’s Mars rover pinpoint its position within inches, drive farther on its own, and speed up exploration.

NASA and JPL enhanced Curiosity and Perseverance navigation using AutoNav, AEGIS, OBP, and Mars Global Localization to improve autonomous driving on Mars.

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From a childhood and young adulthood in segregation, West excelled academically and eventually helped model the Earth’s shape. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

As a young girl in the Jim Crow-era South, Gladys West passed the time counting fenceposts, dreaming of life beyond her family farm south of Richmond. Each day, she walked three miles to a segregated ...

Liftoff of the GPS III-SV09 mission occurred at 11:53 p.m. ET on Tuesday (Jan. 27). When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Breaking ...

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Jan. 27, 2026 at 11:53 p.m. Eastern from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40), Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. The vehicle deployed a Lockheed Martin-built ...

As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system. Dr. Gladys West spent her career in ...

For decades, multinational companies treated localization as a surface-layer adjustment. They tweaked marketing, packaging, or pricing to suit regional tastes. But in today’s fractured world, such ...

West was inducted into United States Air Force Hall of Fame in 2018 IanDagnall Computing / Alamy Stock Photo Gladys West, the mathematician whose work led to the creation of GPS, has died at 95 The ...