Launch of a weather balloon in Australia. (Photo: Townsville Meteorological Office/Bureau of Meteorology) The GPS Week Number Rollover, which took place April 6, has grounded the Australian Bureau...
Photo: ViaLite ViaLite’s new Local Integrated GPS Splitter was designed to minimize rack space. Suitable to applications requiring a fan-out of GPS/GNSS signals within a single local area,...
Photo: PCTEL PCTEL Inc. has released an antenna that combines precision multi-constellation GNSS with high-performance LTE, sub-6 GHz 5G, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity. The Coach II antenna with...
Improving Single-Frequency RTK in the Urban Enviornment By Mojtaba Bahrami and Marek Ziebart A look at how Doppler measurements can be used to smooth noisy code-based pseudoranges to improve the...
Image: Drotek Drotek Electronics is now offering the F9P Sirius RTK GNSS Rover, which is designed to be mounted on a moving vehicle. The u-blox ZED-F9P module inside provides 1-cm position accuracy,...
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...
Image: ESA The European Commission has issued industrial contracts worth €1.47 billion ($1.97 billion) to build next-generation Galileo satellites to Airbus and Thales Alenia Space, reports BBC...
JAVAD GNSS has published a chart showing that it has tracked the IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System) L5 signal. Shortly after the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) released...
Plus: GLONASS CDMA Tracked, Third Beidou-2 Launched The second report from non‐governmental members of the LightSquared/GPS Technical Working Group (TWG) was filed with the Federal Communications...
Innovation: The International GNSS Service: Any Questions? (PDF) By Angelyn W. Moore Published: January 2007 GPS World In this month’s column, Angelyn Moore, the IGS Central Bureau’s deputy...
Bruce Carlson, president of Carlson Software, and William “Butch” Herter talk about the company’s new BRx5 GNSS Receiver and Surveyor2 data collector, among others,...
The new helical antenna in both housed (right) and unhoused form. (Photo: Allison Barwacz) Tallysman, a manufacturer of high-performance GNSS and iridium antennas, launched the first three products...
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...
U.S. positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities are vitally important to millions of civilians, as well as U.S. and allied militaries. The third Navigation Technology Satellite will go...
Photo: Trimble Trimble has added capabilities to its real-time network (RTN) portfolio, including the Trimble Pivot Platform and the Trimble Alloy GNSS reference receiver. The new capabilities will...
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has launched three formation-flying HawkEye 360 Pathfinder 15-kilogram, 20 x 27 x 44-centimeter microsatellites designed to detect and geolocate radio frequency (RF)...
U.S. manufacturers are eager to take advantage of the added accuracy that Galileo offers. (Image: GSA) News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Following a waiver by the U.S. Federal Communications...
Calling it an “unprecedented and deeply worrying total disruption . . . [that] shook the industry,” Locata Corporation reiterated its call for redundant terrestrial systems to back up GNSS in the...
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)...