The OEM7 series. (Photo: NovAtel) The NavIC Indian constellation is now supported in NovAtel’s latest firmware release for its OEM7 series of GNSS receivers. The 7.05.04 firmware release...
Galileo’s Ground Mission Segment in the Fucino Control Centre in Italy oversees Galileo navigation services and satellite payload operations. News from the European Space Agency In Roman times the...
Dime-sized INS with RTK paves the way for high accuracy in mass-market consumer applications. Photo: Inertial Sense Inertial Sense has released a new micro-sized inertial navigation system (INS)...
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of GNSS signals for timing and navigation,...
News from the European Space Agency The latest four Galileo satellites have been given the green light to begin working alongside the rest of Europe’s satellite navigation fleet, giving a further...
And the Beat Goes on Developments in the LightSquared saga came fast and furious in June; highlights are listed below and briefly recapped in the adjacent news story. It will be dated by the time you...
The Delta 4 rocket that will launch the next GPS satellite has been rolled out to the launch pad, reports Spaceflight Now. The satellite itself, GPS IIF-9, will be attached to the rocket in...
Photo: PCTEL PCTEL Inc. released at DistribuTECH a new dual-band 802.11ac/p MIMO antenna that helps boost data rates and reliability for utility networks, intelligent transportation systems and...
Xiaomi Mi 8 dual-frequency smartphones procured for teams participating in ESA’s second Galileo App Competition, taking place at ESTEC in the Netherlands on April 18. (Photo: ESA) The...
The ZED-F9K module is designed to keep cars in their lanes. (Photo: u-blox) The new u‑blox ZED-F9K GNSS and dead-reckoning module is designed to bring continuous lane accurate positioning to...
By John Pottle and Neal Fedora John Pottle Precision matters. While “accuracy” is somewhat one-dimensional, “precision” is multi-faceted. We submit to you that whatever area of GNSS-based...
By John Pottle and Neal Fedora John Pottle Precision matters. While “accuracy” is somewhat one-dimensional, “precision” is multi-faceted. We submit to you that whatever area of GNSS-based...
A black hole has been imaged for the first time. The image was captured by a world-spanning network of radio telescopes that together create the Event Horizon Telescope. It zeroed in on the...
Photo: Systron Donner Systron Donner Inertial (SDI) has released an update to its SDN500 digital quartz MEMS GPS inertial navigation system (GPS/INS). Introduced in 2011, the SDN500 is a platform...
By John Nielsen, Ali Broumandan, and Gérard Lachapelle Ubiquitous adoption of and reliance upon GPS makes national and commercial infrastructures increasingly vulnerable to attack by criminals,...
A year-long project aboard a commercial cargo ship collected tens of thousands of snapshots of radio-frequency interference in the GNSS band on a passage from Spain to Korea and back. Most...
Endura MEMS timing products. (Photo: SiTime) SiTime Corp. has unveiled its Endura micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) timing solutions for aerospace and defense applications including precision...
Xiaomi Mi 8 dual-frequency smartphones procured for teams participating in ESA’s second Galileo App Competition, taking place at ESTEC in the Netherlands on April 18. (Photo: ESA) The...
Global semiconductor company STMicroelectronics has signed an agreement to acquire a majority stake in Swedish silicon carbide (SiC) wafer manufacturer Norstel AB. After closing the deal, ST will...