Not only do Taylor Swift and Elon Musk have private drivers, they have private pilots, too. And entrepreneurial fans and stalkers have figured out how to track them, leading to increasing security ...

TAMPA, Fla. — A Spire Global-led group has won European Space Agency funds to develop a satellite to demonstrate a civil aviation tracking constellation that would not rely on GPS, or any other global ...

Spire’s multi-source ground and space-based data fusion to power real-time aircraft visibility within Amadeus' Virtual Airport Operations Center (vAPOC) Spire Global, Inc. (NYSE: SPIR) (“Spire” or ...

Federal aviation regulators are preparing a rule that would require most aircraft operating in U.S. civilian airspace to use technology that helps pilots identify and track nearby aircraft, The Wall ...

The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and EUROCONTROL have deepened the cooperation between the two organizations on the safety-vital topic of aircraft in distress. The new arrangement ...

Cirium Ascend’s new Ground Events analytics tool is set to revolutionize the aviation aftermarket by providing the first truly global view of historical and projected aircraft maintenance events using ...

The move is supposed to mitigate the operational security threats posed by open-source ADS-B systems. Earlier this year, we reported about the U.S. Air Force Air Mobility Command making a drastic ...

A new bill aims to prevent future accidents like the one that killed 67 people over the Potomac River. The ROTOR Act would require all aircraft, including military ones on non-combat missions, to use ...

LE BOURGET—Sodern has unveiled a daytime star tracker system to provide celestial navigation in daylight, targeting military applications at first to help aircraft navigate in GPS-denied environments.

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 ...

When a military air base stands up at a forward location and GPS signals are being jammed, aircraft cannot land on GPS alone. The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) resolved that gap today by ...

RTX Corp. has won a $206.2 million contract to upgrade the system that guides fighter jets onto aircraft carrier flight decks when pilots cannot see the ship, a deal that shifts one of the Navy’s most ...