Today, pilots who fly the latest model aircraft benefit from glass panel equipment with the latest GPS technology. However, many pilots in older aircraft have to rely on other means of navigation or ...

SINGAPORE—Taiwan’s Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation (AIDC) has validated a jointly developed drone visual navigation and positioning system, a step that could enable Taiwanese-made ...

In modern aviation, redundancy saves lives. Most commercial aircraft, for example, now use advanced positioning and navigation systems to support everything from heading and reference information to ...

Even though most of today's aircraft rely heavily on GPS for navigation, the technology is far from infallible. That's why an alternative system is in the works, which may soon allow planes to ...

Off the shelf: SandboxAQ’s compact instrument reads the magnetic field on the Earth’s crust like a human fingerprint. Credit: SandboxAQ Major fleet owners and operators in the Middle East have shown ...

Modern WAAS GPS, while precise, is vulnerable to natural ionospheric disturbances, unintentional or intentional jamming (which blocks the signal), and the more insidious threat of spoofing (which ...

Iridium Communications Inc., a provider of global voice, data and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) satellite services, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Aireon LLC. Aireon is ...

A plane carrying European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after its GPS navigation systems were jammed. Jamming has become an "invisible threat that ...

A team of researchers at Q-CTRL, a quantum infrastructure software company based in Sydney, Australia, has completed a successful demonstration of a new quantum navigation system called Ironstone Opal ...