Satellites NTS-1, 2 and 3. (Illustration: Lt. Jacob Lutz, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate) The Air Force seems to be on track to experiment with positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) satellites...
Honeywell has been granted a four-year, $99 million contract to help the U.S. Air Force for the embedded GPS and inertial navigation systems (INS) modernization program (EGI-M). Honeywell will...
Tersus GNSS Inc. has released a major upgrade to its Precis-BX306 RTK board with new and improved GPS/GLONASS functionality. Tersus GNSS is a manufacturer of high-precision GNSS real-time kinematic...
Topcon Positioning Group has released a new modular GNSS receiver system, the MR-2. The system combines all current and planned constellation tracking with a comprehensive set of communication...
In early January, a new U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document appeared: “Improving the Operation and Development of Global Positioning System (GPS) Equipment Used by Critical...
The Harris-supplied navigation payload before integration into the second GPS III SV. (Photo: Harris) L3Harris Technologies announced the successful completion of the all-stock merger between Harris...
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...
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...
News from the European Space Agency As well as providing global navigation services, Europe’s Galileo satellite constellation is contributing to saving more than 2,000 lives annually by relaying...
Bosch Sensortec is unveiling new generations of intelligent accelerometers and high-performance gyroscopes at the 2016 International CES in Las Vegas. Aimed at smartphones, tablets and wearables,...
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...
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...
On April 2, German Federal Minister of Transport, Building and Urban Development Peter Ramsauer will officially open the German Galileo test and development infrastructure GATE with the operator IFEN...
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,...
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...
Photo: Gladiator Technologies Gladiator Technologies has introduced a three-axis, inertial rate system gyroscope. The G300D gyro is 0.67 cubic inches, low power and high speed, making it suitable...
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....
The Piksi Multi GNSS receiver. (Photo: Swift Navigation) Swift Navigation has upgraded the firmware to its flagship product — the Piksi Multi GNSS receiver. This marks the sixth...
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....
Since 2006Phone jammer 4g in,phone line jammer tech,Raytheon Company’s GPS Next-Generation Operational Control System program, known as GPS OCX, completed final qualification testing of the system’s modernized monitor station receivers,...
