News courtesy of CANSPACE Listserv. The first navigation signal transmission from the fifth Galileo satellite, one of two Full Operational Capability satellites launched into wrong orbits on August...
Septentrio’s GNSS devices are being used for high-accuracy positioning solutions by two companies. Compact multi-frequency GPS/GNSS receiver module provides robust centimeter-level...
James Litton James D. Litton, GPS pioneer and founder of NavCom Technology Inc., died over the weekend at his home in California with his family at his side. He was 89 years old. Litton was an early...
Spirent Federal Systems, a provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, announced that Col. (retired) Bernard Gruber, former program director of what is now the U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate, has joined the...
Photo: WTS Positioning Solutions WTS Positioning Solutions, a Swedish GPS tracking company, has released its next generation of smart GPS trackers: the Trax G+ series. At the top of the range is...
Dragonfly (Image: CEVA) CEVA Inc. and Nurlink have introduced Nurlink’s NK6010 3GPP Rel.14 eNB-IoT system-on-chip (SoC), powered by the CEVA-Dragonfly NB2 IP solution. The companies made the...
Qulsar announces precision time protocol (PTP) software availability for Qualcomm FSM platform. The QNgine-S precision time protocol (PTP) software by Qulsar is now available on the Qualcomm...
Photo: Trimble Antenna development, going all the way back to the first antennas, has been one of continuous innovation,” Richard Langley wrote in our September issue. Even after more than 30...
China launched another BeiDou satellite into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 10:41 p.m. April 20, according to Xinhua. The inclined geosynchronous Earth...
On May 7, the GPS Directorate will hold a virtual Public Interface Control Working Group Meeting. The meeting will take place 8:30–10:30 a.m. PST. During the meeting, the directorate will review...
Jackson Labs Technologies has released the latest upgrades to its GPS simulator and transcoder product line. Screenshot: Jackson Labs The latest version of freeware application SimCon rev. 1.20 is...
The German Galileo test and development infrastructure GATE has been recertified to serve as a Galileo open‐air test laboratory, for receiver integrity testing (RAIM) for safety‐of‐life (SoL)...
Scientists continue to search for new technologies to serve the PNT mission. One novel way to augment GPS comes from a newly developed technology involving a quantum magnetometer. Researchers at...
Aeroflex has introduced the GPSG-1000, a portable GPS and Galileo positional simulator. The GPSG-1000 is lightweight and configurable. It fills a gap in the market by providing a low-cost 12-channel...
A New Way to Test GNSS Receivers By Alexander Mitelman INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley GNSS RECEIVER TESTING SHOULD NEVER BE LEFT TO CHANCE. Or should it? There are two common approaches to...
A Companion Measure of Systematic Effects By Dennis Milbert GPS receivers must deal with measurements and models that have some degree of error, which gets propagated into the position solution. If...
Third Generation of the Ellipse Series of IMUs. Clockwise from top: Models D, E, A and N. (Photo: SBG Systems) Not just supporting players, alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)...
News from the European Space Agency Your phone or satnav receiver routinely picks up signals from navigation satellites in order to tell you precisely where you are. But have you ever thought what...
Qulsar announces precision time protocol (PTP) software availability for Qualcomm FSM platform. The QNgine-S precision time protocol (PTP) software by Qulsar is now available on the Qualcomm...