In brief: The worrying trend of GPS spoofing, which can cause aircraft navigation systems to show the wrong location or a false time, is a growing problem. This issue is also proving hard to address, ...

In brief: Hacking commercial aircraft to cause complete navigation failures sounds like something you'd only see in movies, but an unknown group has been carrying out spoofing attacks on flights over ...

Aircraft carriers are massive and incredibly complex pieces of machinery with hundreds of thousands of moving parts that all work in unison to get moving. For navigation, GPS and radar systems are ...

A plane carrying European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen was forced to land in Bulgaria using paper maps after its GPS navigation systems were jammed. Jamming has become an "invisible threat that ...

Even without roads or landmarks, pilots always know where they are, thanks to a layered navigation system built for precision and redundancy. The crash of the chartered aircraft carrying Maharashtra ...

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency and the International Air Transport Association are collaborating to tackle the risks posed by recent incidents of Global Navigation Satellite Systems ...

In a recently released paper, the respected analytics firm London Economics determined that the presence of backup systems at the Denver and Dallas Fort Worth airports prevented any noticeable impacts ...

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SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 3, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- ANELLO Photonics, the creator of the Silicon Photonics Optical Gyroscope (SiPhOG™) and a leader in solid-state, high-precision inertial navigation ...

In modern aviation, redundancy saves lives. Most commercial aircraft, for example, now use advanced positioning and navigation systems to support everything from heading and reference information to ...

The Army’s Project Management (PM) Office for Aviation Mission Systems and Architecture (AMSA) received a statement of airworthiness qualification (SAQ) for the EAGLE-M, the Army’s critical next ...