The living globe that can help drones fly without GPS

Get the Full StorySatellite company Maxar is building a detailed digital Earth that can help robots orient themselves in the face of GPS attacks.

Before the advent of GPS, especially at sea, navigation meant finding your position by looking up at the stars. Today, when the Global Positioning System isn t working or gets jammed by electronic warfare drones are learning to do something similar, orienting themselves by looking down at the Earth instead.

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