Photo: Damen The Coast Guard Navigation Center has published a special notice to mariners that use GPS equipment. The special notice outlines the details of the GPS Week Number Rollover that will...
Navigation and positioning test system supplier Spirent Communications this week introduced a software suite for the STR4500 GPS simulator, enabling users to generate their own test cases based on...
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...
OriginGPS, maker of small-format GNSS modules and cellular internet of things (IoT) systems, presented new products with customized IoT and GPS demonstrations at Embedded World 2019, Nuremberg,...
Update (U.S. Space Force news release): The U.S. Space Force and its mission partners successfully launched the third GPS III satellite at 4:10 p.m. EDT June 30 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape...
Testing the antenna performance of GNSS signals such as GPS, GLONASS, Beidou, Galileo and Metropolitan Beacon Systems (MBS) is key to location accuracy performance of a mobile device. To address the...
Protective radome housing for the Galileo ground station on desolate Jan Mayen Island in the Norwegian Arctic. The site is housing a Galileo Sensor Station plus satellite link to pass data back to...
Coalition gives voice to PNT companies seeking open-market approach to backing up GPS/GNSS for critical infrastructure Several GNSS and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) companies have joined...
Using GPS Multipath for Snow-Depth Estimation By Felipe G. Nievinski and Kristine M. Larson INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley FRINGES. No, I’m not talking about the latest celebrity...
Photo: Taoglas Taoglas, a provider of next-generation internet of things (IoT) solutions, has launched Edge Locate, a GNSS L1/L2/E5 module that combines antenna, RF electronics and receiver...
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the April 2019 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM GNSS receiver With embedded 9-DOF IMU Photo: Rokubun The Argonaut...
Maxtena Inc. has introduced a patented GNSS antenna designed for high-precision and autonomous multi-frequency applications. The M7HCT-A-SMA antenna is a high-accuracy, multi-frequency active...
By Marcel Baracchi-Frei, Grégoire Waelchli, Cyril Botteron, and Pierre-André Farine The idea of a software receiver is to replace the data processing implemented in hardware with software and to...
Yang Changfeng, chief architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, speaks at an international event. (Photo: BDS) On July 31, 2020, BDS-3, the global version of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite...
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...
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...
Authors Javier Benedicto (ESA), left, and Rodrigo da Costa (GSA). (Image: ESA) Throughout 2020, the Galileo Programme under the responsibility of the European Commission, the European GNSS Agency...
GSG-54 GNSS simulator Spectracom’s new 8-channel GPS constellation simulator, the Pendulum GSG-54, provides a wide-range of capabilities for in-line production testing of devices...
Taking the Search out of Search and Rescue By David W. Affens, Roy Dreibelbis, James E. Mentall, and George Theodorakos In 1997, a Canadian government study determined that an improved search and...