The threat to shipping posed by GPS jamming and other interference is growing and there is a "real risk to life", experts have warned. Hundreds of vessels are being affected every day, with disruption ...

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 ...

If practice makes perfect, then CAST Navigation’s success and reputation in the global positioning industry should come as no surprise. This year marks the company’s 40th anniversary. Over those four ...

GNSS and inertial navigation systems (INS) are frequently combined to optimize navigational assurance in manned and unmanned systems such as airplanes, spacecraft, land vehicles and marine vessels.

Gladys Mae West, the quiet mathematician behind the Global Positioning System that now guides everything from ride-hailing apps to commercial jets, has died at 95. Her calculations helped turn the ...