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....
NovAtel’s OEM7 v7.03.00 firmware is now available on all OEM7 receivers. The OEM7700, OEM719 and OEM729 can be updated to the 7.03.00 firmware, which supports new features like the SPAN Land...
GSA Market Development Innovation Officer Eduard Escalona speaks at the Intergeo Galileo workshop. (Photo: GSA) News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Galileo and EGNOS were the focus of attention...
A ULA Delta IV rocket carrying GPS III SV02 lifts off from Space Launch Complex-37 on Aug. 22. (Photo: ULA) The U.S. Air Force’s second next-generation GPS III satellite, built by Lockheed Martin,...
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...
News from the European GNSS Service The huge value of the Galileo Search and Rescue (SAR) service was underlined in a live demonstration off the coast of Belgium on Sept. 26. Operation Shark Bait...
Broadcom Limited is offering a mass-market, dual-frequency GNSS receiver device, the BCM47755, designed to enhance location-based services (LBS) applications for mobile phones, tablets and fitness...
Tallysman, a manufacturer of high-performance GNSS antennas, has released a family of high-performing economical wideband low noise amplifiers (LNAs) for choke-ring antennas. Tallysman offers four...
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...
Pierre Delsaux speaks at an EU breakfast on space policy . (Photo: European Union) Responding to a suggestion about the Galileo outage this past summer to the effect of “these things happen,” a...
Alan Cameron In February I had the privilege of addressing the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) Navigation Days conference in the Netherlands. An internal ESA event, Navigation Days gathers...
U-blox has received PTCRB certification of its TOBY-R202 and TOBY-R200 LTE Cat 1 modules for T-Mobile’s U.S. 4G LTE network. The u-blox Toby module. Photo: uBlox Both modules will be...
Telit’s 300-Mbps LE940B6-NA LTE Cat 6 module has received AT&T certification for use on the carrier’s North American LTE wireless networks. The smart module is the first 300 Mbps...
Diana Furchtgott-Roth (Photo: DOT) The last two U.S. presidential administrations failed to follow through on promises to protect GPS and the nation with a system to backup GPS. A recent Department...
Mobile brand Xiaomi has launched a dual-frequency GNSS smartphone. Fitted with a Broadcom BCM47755 chip, the Xiaomi Mi 8 provides up to decimeter-level accuracy for location-based services and...
Inertial Sense will be releasing a high-quality, low-cost navigation system — the μINS — later this summer, the company said. The company made the announcement at AUVSI’s Xponential...
By Thomas A. Stansell, Kenneth W. Hudnut, and Richard G. Keegan The new GPS L1C signal will be broadcast by the Block III satellites, with first launches as early as 2014. L1C innovations...
GSA Market Development Innovation Officer Eduard Escalona speaks at the Intergeo Galileo workshop. (Photo: GSA) News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Galileo and EGNOS were the focus of attention...
Image: NOAA The COSMIC-1 program ended on May 1, when the last of six tiny satellites were decommissioned. The satellites were launched 14 years ago, and outlived their planned lifespan by 12 years....
The U.S. Air Force 50th Space Wing’s 2nd Space Operations Squadron took command and control of the second GPS Block IIF satellite on August 19. SVN-63 (PRN 01) was set healthy on August 23. The...
Since 20064g phone jammer legality,phone jammer detector batteries,OK, perhaps the headline is a tad misleading. But in addition to its natural preoccupation with Galileo, the European Space Agency (ESA) has begun thinking and talking about PNT as a service and user...
