If GPS and radar go down, U.S. aircraft carriers can navigate using celestial navigation, sextants, compasses, and ...
SpaceX will launch an advanced, jam-resistant GPS satellite for the U.S. Space Force from Florida tonight (Jan. 26), and you ...
As a Navy mathematician in the 1950s and beyond, she played an unheralded but foundational role in making possible the global satellite-based mapping system.
Despite lacking a hippocampus entirely—and having diverged from the mammalian lineage roughly 400 million years ago—larval ...
Groundbreaking Black mathematician Gladys West, who helped develop the algorithms behind GPS, died Jan. 17 at age 95. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Marvin Jackson, who co-wrote West's memoir.
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A self-described "little farm girl" in the Jim Crow Era, Gladys West's complex and pioneering work for the U.S. Navy helped ...
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