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 Wei Liu, Xingqun Zhan, Li Liu, and Mancang Niu A comprehensive methodology combines spectral-separation and code-tracking spectral-sensitivity coefficients to analyze interference among GPS,...
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...
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...
A Chinese cargo ship, the Rongda Changsha , equipped with receivers downloading signals from the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), arrived at Brunei, on the north coast of the island of...
What’s in Store for the Next Solar Maximum? By Anna B.O. Jensen and Cathryn Mitchell Although the sun can become disturbed at any time, solar activity is correlated with the approximately 11-year...
Experts representing the Galileo Program provided a frank and open update on how it is addressing the problem of the first two full operational capability (FOC) satellites being delivered to the...
QuickBird satellite image of Kalutara Beach on the southwestern coast of Sri Lanka showing the receding waters and beach damage from the Sumatra tsunami.( Credit: Digital Globe) How Ionospheric...
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...
GNSS positioning is highly accurate and reliable — until satellite signals are disrupted. Hexagon | NovAtel has developed SPAN technology that integrates GNSS positioning with inertial...
Photo: Aceinna Module designed for developers creating guidance and navigation systems for autonomous vehicles, robots, drones, industrial, construction and agricultural machinery Aceinna launched...
Workshop participants from Cote d’Ivoire and Kenya assemble a Mindstorm robot to trial autonomous navigation. By Patricia Doherty Last year I helped coordinate a three-week workshop for 50...
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...
Hemisphere GNSS showcased its next-generation digital ASIC and RF ASIC interference mitigation platforms, and five positioning and heading OEM boards — the first products incorporating these...
By Urs Niesen, Jubin Jose, Xinzhou Wu, Qualcomm Technologies Inc. Emerging automotive applications require reliable but at the same time low-cost positioning solutions. In this paper, we present such...
Five Challenges, One Key Technology, the Political Battlefield — and a GPS Mafia Part 2 of a Two-Part Story. Read Part 1 here. By Bradford W. Parkinson and Stephen T. Powers, with Gaylord Green,...
A performance assessment demonstrates the ability of a networked group of users to locate themselves and each other, navigate, and operate under adverse conditions in which an individual user would...
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)...
News from Schriever Air Force Base On July 23, the 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2 SOPS) gained Satellite Control Authority of GPS satellite vehicle number 76 — also known as GPS III SV03 —...
The Institute of Navigation (ION) presented its Annual Awards during the ION International Technical Meeting and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting, both held virtually...