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Move over, GPS: Navigation satellites in low-Earth orbit are making a comeback
That GPS forerunner you forgot is coming back in style Xona aims to deploy 258 satellites into low-Earth orbit as […]
Payloads used to dictate the terms of launch. That’s finally changing.
“The Starship Pez dispenser demonstrates very smart industrial design and scale.” Artist’s illustration of Starship releasing a Starlink V3 satellite […]
Tests suggest Russian satellites can jam GPS on a continental scale
In September 2025, the researchers sought help from the broader community at the Institute of Navigation conference in Baltimore, Maryland, […]
Mystery GPS jammer in Iran becomes test for NASA satellites’ capabilities
NASA satellites designed to observe cyclone wind speeds and collapsing ice sheets have also proven capable of identifying the approximate […]
Starlink shuts down its GPS-style cheat code. Researchers may unlock it anyway.
In 2021, a team led by Zak Kassas, director of the Autonomous Systems Perception, Intelligence, and Navigation (ASPIN) Laboratory at […]
Russian spy satellites have intercepted EU communications satellites
Those thrusters could also be used to knock satellites out of alignment or even cause them to crash back to […]
GPS is vulnerable to jamming—here’s how we might fix it
GPS jamming has gotten cheap and easy, but there are potential solutions. In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was […]
Investors commit quarter-billion dollars to startup designing “Giga” satellites
A startup established three years ago to churn out a new class of high-power satellites has raised $250 million to […]
Planned satellite constellations may swamp future orbiting telescopes
On Wednesday, three NASA astronomers released an analysis showing that several planned orbital telescopes would see their images criss-crossed by […]