WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a Virginia startup developing a low-Earth-orbit navigation system intended to complement or back up GPS, said May 12 it received a $4 million contract from the U.S. Space ...

What if the world’s most sophisticated spaceplane has a navigation system that is not reliant on GPS at all? Thursday evening late, in weather that improved as Hurricane Erin had moved north into the ...

Northrop describes the LR-450 as a smaller, lower-power commercial derivative of the navigation architecture used in NASA’s ...

If you think finding your way on Earth without help from Google Maps or Waze is difficult, just think about what that's like for people planning missions in space. Luckily, as technology progresses, ...

Advanced Navigation, one of the world’s most determined innovators in AI robotics and navigation technology, has been awarded a Moon to Mars Initiative: Demonstrator Mission Grant by the Australian ...

On August 21, 2025, a small but powerful space plane will once again head into orbit, carrying with it experiments that could redefine how humans travel through space. The X-37B, a reusable orbital ...

A pioneering study enhances autonomous spacecraft navigation between Earth and the Moon using the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). By implementing an adaptive Kalman filter, the research ...

The National Space Science and Technology Center (NSSTC) and Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), are cooperating to explore opportunities in low-Earth orbit ...

Jacob Payne, a graduate student and research assistant at the University of Iowa’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, landed a NASA grant to build a small X-ray telescope that can assist with deep ...