For a hacker, the best way to understand how a system works is to break it down into its constituent parts, do a hell of a lot of research, and then rebuild it from scratch. Andrew Holme, a British ...

GPS is the best technology for tracking the location and movement of any object anywhere in the world. GPS stands for “Global Positioning System,” and refers to a worldwide network of satellites, ...

We return to [Tom Verbeure] hacking on Symmetricom GPS receivers. This time, the problem’s more complicated, but the solution remains the same – hardware hacking. If you recall, the previous frontier ...

Does anyone know of the maximum elevation a GPS receiver can generally be used (need longitude, latitude and height data )? Basically I want to use a GPS in an amateur satellite, for establishing its ...

LightSquared wants the U.S. FCC to set standards for commercial GPS devices to prevent what LightSquared calls interference with other wireless services. In its latest salvo against the GPS industry, ...

Abstract: At JPL, there is a long history of developing space flight projects for studying the Earth, the solar system, and beyond. For the past 20 years at JPL, I’ve worked on many Earth-observing ...