While basic accelerometers are common in smartphones and fitness trackers, quantum inertial sensors can detect changes in ...

Aircraft navigation has evolved from basic pilotage and dead reckoning to sophisticated electronic systems powered by radio waves. Today’s pilots rely on navigational aids that don’t require ...

On almost 70,000 flights between February and August 2022, GPS navigation was disrupted or failed due to jamming. Over the eastern Mediterranean, more than every second flight was affected.

Field trials conducted by Q-CTRL included both ground vehicles and aircraft. The results showed that Ironstone Opal outperformed a high-end inertial navigation system, a standard GPS backup, by up to ...

Maxar, a provider of commercial satellite imagery, has developed a visual navigation solution for aircraft operating in GPS-denied environments. The Colorado-based firm is best known for its ...

Luca Ferrara, GM of AQNav at SandboxAQ, on their new quantum-based navigation system, and why it could offer an edge in ...

The X-37B, the US Space Force's secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.

According to the company, the LN-251M represents a significant advancement in naval aircraft navigation, being the first M-Code navigation system designed for this purpose. The M-code technology ...

The company said Tuesday the flight tests were held at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and utilized B-52 and F-16 aircraft to check the performance of the updated navigation system.

Looking ahead, airspace closure may become more frequent, and airlines would have to come up with innovative measures to deal ...

AeroVironment, Inc. today announced the launch of Red Dragon™, a fully autonomous capable, software-defined unmanned aircraft system designed for one-way attack missions in high-threat, GPS ...

That has obvious defence applications for aircraft or long-range missiles, but also commercial sectors such as mining, seafloor exploration and space, for which GPS is an imperfect solution for ...