Have you ever wondered how satellites stay on course when they are millions of miles from Earth? Recently, a listener named Don reached out to us with that exact question.

WASHINGTON — Rhea Space Activity, a Washington, D.C.-based space technology startup, has raised $6 million in a Series A funding round to advance navigation software designed to operate without GPS, ...

Varda Space Industries has launched its sixth reentry capsule aboard SpaceX’s Transporter-16 mission. The capsule launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at ...

Space is no longer the domain of a few government agencies. It has evolved into a vital ecosystem of commercial ventures and scientific innovation that affects global communications, navigation, ...

The U.S. Space Force (USSF) Space Systems Command (SSC) established its new Satellite Communications System Delta (SYD 88) to support its Military Communication and Positioning, Navigation and Timing ...

TrustPoint's low Earth orbit navigation system ground station. Credit: TrustPoint WASHINGTON — TrustPoint, a Virginia-based startup developing a network of navigation satellites in low Earth orbit, ...

Explore how Mars rover AutoNav and TRN lunar landing technologies advance autonomous spacecraft navigation, enabling self-guided, human-free space missions across Mars, the Moon, and beyond. Pixabay, ...

The U.S. Space Forces’ (USSF's) Los Angeles-based acquisition arm, Space Systems Command, stood up a new system delta last month. Named the SYD 831 Military Communications & Positioning, Navigation ...

SpaceX has launched the GPS III Space Vehicle 08 for the U.S. Space Force, adding enhanced anti-jamming capabilities and ...

The launch of Artemis II may have slipped on the calendar, but it has not lost its geopolitical meaning. While the highly anticipated blast-off of NASA’s Space Launch System from Kennedy Space Center ...

Increasingly, military and commercial aircraft can't rely on GPS. The best alternative just might be quantum navigation.