The war with Iran is laying bare the dangers posed to commercial ships and planes by the rise of GPS interference in and around conflict zones.

When ships enter the Strait of Hormuz between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula, their navigation screens report impossible things. In the two weeks since the U.S. and Israel launched attacks against ...

The war in Iran has dominated headlines with reports of airstrikes and escalating military activity. But beyond the immediate ...

A back up GPS proposal has caused a high-stakes FCC battle between NextNav’s 5G ambitions and the Z-Wave symphony powering billions of IoT devices.

The proliferation of cheap, powerful GPS jammers has airline operators, shipping firms and militaries alike scrambling for ...

How widespread is GPS disruption currently across the Middle East, and how significantly is it affecting military and civilian navigation systems?

The global positioning system (GPS) capabilities of cargo ships, oil tankers and other vessels stuck in the Middle East ...

In September 2025, a Widerøe Airlines flight was trying to land in Vardø, Norway, which sits in the country’s far eastern arm, some 40 miles from the Russian coast. The cloud deck was low, and so was ...

Ever want to find your device on the map? Think we all do sometimes. The technology you’ll generally use for that is called Global Positioning System (GPS) – listening to a flock of satellites flying ...

September marks the 50th anniversary of the Global Positioning System, a U.S.-owned free utility that offers positioning, navigation, and timing services to users all over the world. It changed not ...