The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on ...

Exelis (NYSE: XLS) successfully completed factory acceptance testing for the Global Positioning System (GPS) III navigation payload simulator software. Developed by Exelis, the software will simulate ...

LOUISVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and defense-tech prime that is Building a Platform in Space to Benefit Life on Earth ® and protect economic freedom ...

What could you do with ten years and 8 billion bucks? If you said "build a functional GPS control system for the US military," you'd be incorrect. The Pentagon's multi-year effort to establish a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Space Force wants to launch dozens of small, cheap satellites as part of its Resilient GPS program, meant to augment the ...

No audio available for this content. The number of GPS on Bench Mark (BM) stations highlighted as complete on the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) GPS tracking page as of Sept. 25 represents 43 percent ...

The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the ...

The Space Force wants its next fleet of GPS satellites to be smaller, cheaper and more resilient - and it's looking to a mix of commercial and defense firms to help design those spacecraft. Four ...