Europe is set to launch two satellites Thursday for its Galileo navigation system, boosting the number in the Earth-orbiting constellation to six and bringing the network a step closer to becoming operational after a long ...
Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2014
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In the depths of night on August 5th 1914 the British Cable Ship Alert took the first significant action of World War I, severing the five German submarine cables that ran through the English Channel. This operation was a ...
Telecom
Jul 31, 2014
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A new way of measuring sea level using satellite navigation system signals, for instance GPS, has been implemented by scientists at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden. Sea level and its variation can easily be monitored ...
Earth Sciences
May 21, 2014
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A Delta 4 rocket has lifted off from Cape Canaveral carrying a GPS satellite.
Space Exploration
May 17, 2014
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Due to the success of navigation devices and smartphones, digital maps are used widely in everyday life. They guide us safely along motorways or to the next bakery as long as the map is good and clear. However, representation ...
Computer Sciences
May 8, 2014
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(Phys.org) —This image from the Navigation Camera (Navcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows a sandstone slab on which the rover team has selected a target, "Windjana," for close-up examination and possible drilling. ...
Space Exploration
Apr 29, 2014
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Google on Wednesday added virtual time travel to its Internet offerings.
Internet
Apr 23, 2014
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An escape route mapping system based on the behavior of ant colonies could give evacuees a better chance of reaching safe harbor after a natural disaster or terrorist attack by building a map of showing the shortest routes ...
Computer Sciences
Apr 16, 2014
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Chinese digital mapping and navigation company AutoNavi Holdings Ltd. has agreed to be acquired by e-commerce company Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. in a deal valued at $1.5 billion.
Business
Apr 11, 2014
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The Burmese python has a built-in compass that allows it to slither home in a near-straight line even if released dozens of kilometres away, researchers said Wednesday.
Plants & Animals
Mar 19, 2014
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