Researchers at De Montfort University in Leicester have secured £113,000 in funding to develop a navigation device that can gather information from a variety of satellite systems. The sat-nav device ...

Europe's Galileo sat-nav system, a rival to America's GPS, should move closer to operation with the launch Tuesday of a fresh pair of satellites to join a dozen already in space. Orbiters 13 and 14 ...

This is after 17 years of development and billions spent. We tend to use “GPS” the way we use “Kleenex” or “Band-Aid”—as a brand name substitute for the generic “satellite navigation system.” But the ...

31 Jan 2024, 16:44 UTC · By: Bogdan Popa / Blindly trusting GPS navigation once again has serious consequences, as a driver went off a ramp and over a median as he was following the sat-nav 26 Jan ...

Sat-nav systems can not only sometimes send motorists the wrong way but also impair driving, a study suggests. Researchers at University of London and Lancaster University tested drivers in a car ...

Europe's Galileo sat-nav system, a rival to America's GPS, took a step closer to becoming operational Tuesday with the launch of a fresh pair of satellites to join a dozen already in space. Orbiters ...

New research by Comscore has underlined something we always knew, but perhaps we weren’t expecting to be so significant: Cellphone satellite navigation use in Europe is rocketing skywards at an ...

Land Information New Zealand (LINZ) has revealed details of a New Zealand trial of the satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) mdash; which is intended to improve the accuracy of GPS mdash; that it ...

London’s taxi drivers have to pass a grueling test to earn a license, memorizing the ins and outs of central London. Research has shown that certain regions of the aspiring drivers’ brains actually ...

ESA plans to use its upcoming Lunar Pathfinder mission to experiment with expanding sat-nav coverage to the Moon. By tuning in to the radio signals leaking from the Galileo and GPS satellite ...