Home / Maxar launches GPS-alternative navigation system for drones. Posted in Commercial Maxar launches GPS-alternative navigation system for drones by Sandra Erwin March 25, 2025 March 26, 2025.

Maxar Intelligence's new software can operate drones even in areas where the GPS signal has been jammed - cutting through modern defenses in the unmanned vehicle age of war.

AUSTIN, Texas—Because GPS can be spoofed or jammed in combat, one geospatial intelligence company developed a drone-navigation system based on 3D maps.. Peter Wilczynski, Maxar’s chief product ...

Robust against GPS jamming: By bypassing the need for GPS, this system provides a reliable alternative for drones operating in GPS-denied environments.

An autonomous drone is usually only as good as its GPS navigation system.Without it, the uncrewed aerial vehicles (UAVs) are essentially dead in the air unless a human can remotely take over ...

If you’re [Nick Rehm], you want a drone that can plan its own routes even at low altitudes with unplanned obstacles blocking its way. (Video, embedded below.) And or course, you build it from… ...

A first worldwide test of civil drone flights in GPS denied environments was successfully conducted in Israel in a special drone test zone in Yeruham, where safe navigation solutions for drone flight ...

Engineers at the University of South Australia have taken a page from the days of wooden sailing ships and developed a way for drones to navigate by the stars at night using simple, lightweight ...

MIT researchers successfully tested a system of using flocks of self-navigating, object avoiding drones for mapping in GPS deprived locations using laser rangefinders and pattern recognition ...