A federal watchdog agency is warning Congress that the GPS system may begin to suffer failures and outages starting next year and blamed the Air Force’s mismanagement and and underinvestment for it. “If the Air Force does not meet its schedule goals for development of GPS IIIA satellites, there will be an increased likelihood that more »

The Glonass mapping system, which is managed by the Russian military and currently works over most of Russia, is expected to cover the globe by the end of 2009 when all of its 24 navigational satellites will be operating. Just this week, Russia has successfully launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, which is located in ex-Soviet more »