Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation The Empire State Building sits atop a massive and solid foundation that hardly anyone ever sees. Above ground it has 2.8 million square feet of...
Using Microwaves and Laser Ranging for Precise Orbit Determination By Erik Schönemann, Tim A. Springer, Michiel Otten, and Matthias Becker Though Galileo’s GIOVE-A is a test satellite not...
The U.S. Air Force’s second new GPS III satellite, bringing higher-power, more accurate and harder-to-jam signals to the GPS constellation, has arrived in Florida for launch. On March 18, Lockheed...
By Markus Brandl, Xiaoming Chen, Herbert Landau, Carlos Rodriguez-Solano and Ulrich Weinbach This article updates a July 2012 feature in GPS World , “Real-Time Extended GNSS Positioning: A New...
By Cillian O’Driscoll, Gérard Lachapelle, and Mohamed Tamazin, University of Calgary The impact of adding GLONASS to HS-GPS is assessed using a software receiver operating in an actual urban...
The OSA 5401 and OSA 5405 now enable power utility and broadcast networks to achieve sub-microsecond synchronization. (Photo: Business Wire) Upgraded PTP grandmaster clocks deliver precise, robust...
By Thomas A. Stansell, Kenneth W. Hudnut, and Richard G. Keegan The new GPS L1C signal will be broadcast by the Block III satellites, with first launches as early as 2014. L1C innovations...
LORD Corporation has released the latest version of its SensorConnect sensing software, featuring significant updates that support sensor management and data collection and visualization for...
A U.S. judge dismissed the bulk of two lawsuits by LightSquared and equity owner Harbinger Capital Partners, reports Reuters. The suits accused Trimble, Garmin and Deere & Co. of misleading...
Mauro Colombi, vice president of operations for Stonex, discusses the new S10 GNSS Receiver while at InterGeo 2014, held October 7-9 in Berlin. The S10 features a new generation of smart and open...
Image: Swift Navigation Skylark is now available across the contiguous United States, enabling safe and lane-level accurate positioning. Swift Navigation’s network-connected Skylark...
Norway has electronic proof that Russian forces disrupted GPS signals during recent NATO war games, according to a report in Reuters news service. The Scandinavian country and North Atlantic Treaty...
Photo: Allison Barwacz New MTi 600-series with flexible interfacing options is backed by software development suite for easy integration into space-restricted host systems such as drones, Xsens...
Photo: peeterv/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Ambiguity and Environmental Data: Two Further Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, and Ziyi...
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...
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...
The September “Innovation” column in this magazine, “It’s Not All Bad: Understanding and Using GNSS Multipath,” by Andria Bilich and Kristine Larson, mentions the use of multipath in...
Using Microwaves and Laser Ranging for Precise Orbit Determination By Erik Schönemann, Tim A. Springer, Michiel Otten, and Matthias Becker Though Galileo’s GIOVE-A is a test satellite not...
GPS signals extend farther than expected, meaning future space missions can reliably use GPS at extreme altitudes. By Danny Baird NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland The four...
Capt. Adam Moody, 2 SOPS GPS Operations Support flight commander, and Staff Sgt. Carl Ellinger, 2 SOPS GPS mission chief, review a checklist of procedures for a transfer operation at Schriever Air...