The effort, known as Resilient GPS, or R-GPS, began in 2024 and funded three industry teams to develop designs and early prototypes for alternative navigation satellites. The Space Force confirmed it ...

The Space Force wants its next fleet of GPS satellites to be smaller, cheaper and more resilient - and it's looking to a mix of commercial and defense firms to help design those spacecraft. Four ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Space Force wants to launch dozens of small, cheap satellites as part of its Resilient GPS program, meant to augment the ...

An outage or loss of GPS satellites is estimated to cost the U.S. military and economy upward of $1 billion a day. Pentagon leaders believe that estimate is conservative, leading the U.S. Space Force ...

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ORLANDO, Fla. — Orange County's GPS monitoring system is back up and running, Channel 9 has learned. But Rafael Zaldivar, the father of a murder victim, said it's not enough to keep people safe. The ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Space Force is moving forward with plans to deploy smaller, cheaper GPS satellites based on commercial designs to add to its current network of larger military satellites. The ...

The U.S. Air Force began deploying the Global Positioning System — more commonly known as GPS — nearly 50 years ago, satellites which have become critical infrastructure for both the military and the ...