Current u-blox GNSS platforms — from u-blox M8 and beyond — support the recently completed BeiDou navigation satellite system modernizations, improving the availability of GNSS positioning...
BeiDou constellation. (Image: BeiDou program) China completed its worldwide BeiDou navigation satellite system with the launch of its final satellite on June 23, according to China Global Television...
A Hansel and Gretel Approach to Cooperative Vehicle Positioning By Scott Stephenson, Xiaolin Meng, Terry Moore, Anthony Baxendale, and Tim Edwards MEET GEORGE JETSON. Those of us of a certain age...
The United States Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center on July 27 completed the military code (M-code) Early Use (MCEU) hardware and software upgrade to the GPS Operational Control System...
“Fourth industrial revolution and advanced technology” for all sectors The government of South Korea signed an agreement on Oct. 28 for its new eLoran system to support digital radio and...
Effective Sept. 1, Tallysman Wireless Inc. was acquired by Calian Group Ltd. to expand Calian’s reach in the satcom industry to markets requiring smaller antennas used in end-user devices that need...
Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) CLAS received a major enhancement on Nov. 30. QZSS CLAS (centimeter-level augmentation service) is the satellite-based nationwide open PPP-RTK...
DHS report cover Members of Congress were not pleased with the new U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) report on positioning, navigation and timing (PNT), saying the long-delayed report...
A Companion Measure of Systematic Effects By Dennis Milbert GPS receivers must deal with measurements and models that have some degree of error, which gets propagated into the position solution. If...
UPDATE: The U.S. Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and its mission partners successfully launched the fourth GPS III satellite at 6:24 p.m. EST Nov. 5 from Space Launch Complex 40...
New research by Bjorn Bergman of the environmental non-profit SkyTruth has found ships in various parts of the world reporting locations thousands of miles away and circling at precisely 20 knots....
It is estimated that there are currently the same number of satnav receivers on Earth as there are people. (Image: ESA) News from the European Space Agency (ESA) A new monitoring system developed...
Septentrio has launched two new products. The AsteRxi is the company’s first multi-sensor GNSS receiver. AsteRxi processes high-quality GNSS measurements with IMU-measurements to generate an...
The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Space and the Missile Systems Center achieved another major GPS milestone on July 27 when the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 03 received USSF’s Operational...
Spirent’s GSS9000 constellation simulator. Spirent Federal Systems, a U.S. provider of positioning, navigation and timing test solutions to the government and its contractors,...
Getting there more safely INNOVATION INSIGHTS with Richard Langley It’s all physics. How things work, that is. You’ve heard me say that before in this column, but I suppose I’m a...
Partnering with the U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN), U.S. Space Force and Lockheed Martin Space have released the GPS IIR/IIR-M satellite antenna patterns for worldwide public use....
Understanding and Using GNSS Multipath By Andria Bilich and Kristine M. Larson Telltale signs of multipath are the fluctuations in the signal-to-noise ratios (SNRs) reported by some GNSS receivers....