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...
Calling it an “unprecedented and deeply worrying total disruption . . . [that] shook the industry,” Locata Corporation reiterated its call for redundant terrestrial systems to back up GNSS in the...
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...
An Introduction to Bandwidth, Gain Pattern, Polarization and All That How do you find best antenna for particular GNSS application, taking into account size, cost, and capability? We look at the...
Topcon’s NET-G5 receiver and CR-G5-C antenna. Topcon Positioning Group said that its latest GNSS reference receiver, the NET-G5, is capable of tracking a new signal from the GLONASS...
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...
News from the European Space Agency A kite-blown science expedition to the interior of Antarctica has made the most southerly positioning fixes yet made with Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation...
Mitigation Through Adaptive Filtering for Machine Automation Applications By Luis Serrano, Don Kim, and Richard B. Langley Multipath is real and omnipresent, a detriment when GPS is used for...
The GSG-51 GNSS signal generator provides a fast and cost-effective solution for production testing for Galileo and other GNSS. It emulates a single GNSS signal and can be upgraded for Galileo, as...
Testing GNSS Receivers with Record and Playback Techniques By David A. Hall Is there a way to perform repeatable tests on GNSS receivers using real signals? This month’s column looks at how to use...
The Allystar INS Platform — the company’s latest technology — is a dual-antenna, multi-frequency, multi-GNSS inertial navigation system (INS) that delivers accurate and reliable...
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...
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...
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 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...
Portos Team paired with the Ninja. (Photo: iP-Solutions) Japan-based iP-Solutions has introduced Portos Team, a new GNSS RF signal record-and-playback system. The Portos Team can record and play...
One of two Galileo satellites, safely in its protective container, is unloaded from an Air France Boeing 747 at Cayenne–Félix Eboué Airport in French Guiana. News from the European Space Agency...
Third Generation of the Ellipse Series of IMUs. Clockwise from top: Models D, E, A and N. (Photo: SBG Systems) Not just supporting players, alternative positioning, navigation and timing (PNT)...
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...
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...