Oxford Technical Solutions’ xOEMcore. Photo: Oxford Technical Solutions The xOEMcore, now being offered by Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS), is an inertial navigation system that can also...
Photo: peeterv/iStock/Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Complexity and Context: Key Challenges of Multisensor Positioning By Paul D. Groves, Lei Wang, Debbie Walter, Henry Martin, and Kimon Voutsis,...
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...
Photo: OxTS Oxford Technical Solutions (OxTS) offers a future-proof inertial navigation system (INS) board set for system integrators. The xOEM v3 includes the architecture from the company’s...
News from the European Space Agency Your phone or satnav receiver routinely picks up signals from navigation satellites in order to tell you precisely where you are. But have you ever thought what...
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...
Space Flight Laboratory (SFL) has launched three formation-flying HawkEye 360 Pathfinder 15-kilogram, 20 x 27 x 44-centimeter microsatellites designed to detect and geolocate radio frequency (RF)...
The United States Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) has issued a notice about a problem some receivers are having implementing the correct time. The U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center...
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...
GNSS Winter School 2021 is planned for Feb. 22-26 in Islamabad, Pakistan. The Institute of Space Technology is hosting the event, in collaboration with the Space Education Research Lab of the...
TAU-0707 series GNSS module. (Photo: Allystar) Allystar Technology Co. Ltd. has launched its smallest multi-band multi-GNSS module, the TAU-0707. Within its 7.6 x 7.6 millimeter size, the TAU-0707...
An Object-Oriented Software Platform Suitable for Multiple Receivers By Eliot Wycoff, Yuting Ng, and Grace Xingxin Gao INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley AND NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY...
Scientists continue to search for new technologies to serve the PNT mission. One novel way to augment GPS comes from a newly developed technology involving a quantum magnetometer. Researchers at...
Rohde & Schwarz will be demonstrating its SMBV100A simulator at ION GNSS+ 2014, and is offering a new Wireless Standards poster for visitors to its booth. Rohde & Schwarz will be...
Chip-scale atomic clock. How a Chip-Scale Atomic Clock Can Help Mitigate Broadband Interference Small low-power atomic clocks can enhance the performance of GPS receivers in a number of ways,...
Opposing the FCC’s Ligado Decision Not surprisingly, the primary topic at the July 1 meeting of the National Space-based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board was the Federal...
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...
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...
Belgium has launched its first smart highway test environment. Septentrio GPS/GNSS receivers are integrated into vehicles and infrastructure to provide dependable, high-accuracy positioning and to...
From left: 2019 QEPrize winners Richard Schwartz, Bradford Parkinson, James Spilker and Hugo Fruehauf. (Photo: QEPrize) The United Kingdom’s 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has...