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...
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)...
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...
Trade wars may be THE only serious limiting factor The GNSS chip market worldwide is projected to grow by $2.7 billion, guided by a compounded growth of 8%, to 2025, according to ResearchandMarkets....
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...
AUVSI Xponential 2019 — the huge exhibition and conference built around unmanned everything — will run at the West Building, McCormick Place Convention Center, April 29 to May 2 in Chicago. This...
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...
Northrop Grumman and Boeing have responded to a U.S. Air Force call for contractors interested in building a follow-on set of GPS III satellites, according to a report in Space News . Lockheed Martin...
Autonomous GPS Positioning at High Earth Orbits To initially acquire the GPS signals, a receiver also would have to search quickly through the much larger range of possible Doppler shifts and code...
Some ups and downs for unmanned aircraft this month — good news that there is further progress on the pseudo-satellite front, but we also have MIL-SPEC drones lost to shoot-downs and recent crash...
The U.S. Department of Transportation will host a third workshop to continue discussions of the GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment on March 12. The workshop will focus on the following...
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...
The U.S. Department of Transportation will host a third workshop to continue discussions of the GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment on March 12. The workshop will focus on the following...
Some ups and downs for unmanned aircraft this month — good news that there is further progress on the pseudo-satellite front, but we also have MIL-SPEC drones lost to shoot-downs and recent crash...
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...
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...
Image: iStock.com/metamorworks via Bentley Systems Nestwave has developed an ultra-low power, advanced GNSS solution for use in internet of things (IoT) applications. Nestwave, a Paris-based...
A senior Chinese government space official on Feb. 5 said precision-navigation user receivers in China will be fitted with chipsets receiving satellite signals from BeiDou, GPS, GLONASS, and...
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...
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...