China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 17:43:04.482 UTC on Nov. 5. Launched on a Long...
China sends twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space on a single carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Xichang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 19, 2018....
Integrations of MEMS sensors with signal conditioning and radio communications form “motes” with extremely low-cost and low-power requirements and miniaturized form factor. Now...
By Philip Mattos, STMicroelectronics R&D Ltd. A one-chip multiconstellation GNSS receiver, now in volume production, has been tested in severe urban environments to demonstrate the benefits...
OEMs’ Global Economic Outlook Irv Leveson, principal, Leveson Consulting There’s a saying that “Time stops everything from happening at once” — but what if it doesn’t? What if we are...
The GPS Directorate is soliciting public comments on several Proposed Interface Revision Notices (PIRNs). Comments are due June 25. Download or view the proposed changes on GPS.gov. Minutes from the...
Topcon Positioning Group has launched two new full constellation GNSS receivers for the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) market. The new B111 and B125 boards are designed for use with a broad...
A Belgian container terminal is about to become Europe’s largest, and GNSS technoloy will be integrated. The MSC PSA European Terminal (MPET) in Antwerp, Belgium, is moving its operations...
By Colonel John Claxton Chief, PNT Mission Integration, Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center Image: USAF The Global Positioning System has provided the citizens of the United States and the...
Improving Single-Frequency RTK in the Urban Enviornment By Mojtaba Bahrami and Marek Ziebart A look at how Doppler measurements can be used to smooth noisy code-based pseudoranges to improve the...
Plus an update on GPS III satellites in production Editor Alan Cameron talked with Johnathon Caldwell, Lockheed Martin’s vice president of navigation systems. Tell us about the on-orbit performance...
By Jenna R. Tong, Robert J. Watson, and Cathryn N. Mitchell, University of Bath Using signal-to-noise measurements from a single commercial-grade L1 GPS receiver, it is possible to detect...
The second next-generation GPS III satellite — nicknamed “Magellan” by the U.S. Air Force — is encapsulated and ready for its planned July 25 launch. On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and...
Taoglas, a provider of Internet of Things (IoT) and GNSS antenna products, has released two new GPS certification testing services for Google and its device partners. The services are required for...
u-blox and SIM Technology Group Limited of Shanghai, China, have announced that u-blox will not be acquiring the SIMCom cellular module product line as previously planned. Despite best efforts on...
PORTLAND, Oregon — Spectracom announced at the ION-GNSS conference the introduction of new capabilities for its GSG line of GPS GNSS constellation simulators. These features reinforce...
I’m Walking Here! INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley OVER THE YEARS , many philosophers tried to describe the phenomenon of inertia but it was Newton, in his Philosophiæ Naturalis...
A new Glonass-M navigation satellite is now aloft, preparing to join Russia’s GLONASS constellation. The satellite launched Dec. 11 at 11:54 Moscow time aboard a Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle...
EndRun Technologies, a provider of precision time and frequency solutions, announced at the Precision Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting the release of the RTM3205...
A software-based GNSS receiver is now available on Tensilica ConnX DSP IP cores, according to an announcement by Cadence Design Systems and Galileo Satellite Navigation, Ltd. (GSN), a developer of...
Since 20063g,4g jammer,cell jammer Nunavut,Skyworks Solutions, which manufactures analog and mixed-signal semiconductors, has launched three low-noise amplifier (LNA) front-end modules with integrated filters for GNSS. The devices are...