Image: Moncherie/E+/Getty Images Of the hundreds of papers researchers presented this year at the Institute of Navigation’s annual ION GNSS+ conference, which took place virtually Sept. 21–25,...
Artist’s rendering: U.S. Air Force The U.S. Air Force is using a digital replica of a GPS IIR satellite to detect any cyber-security issues, reports Air Force Magazine. Booz Allen Hamilton...
Recent completion of China’s BeiDou satellite navigation system has rekindled privacy and security concerns among some in the West. China has incorporated a two-way messaging capability into BeiDou...
The R&S SMBV100A vector signal generator can generate Galileo, GPS, and GLONASS signals for up to 24 satellites in real time. With the SMBV-K107 option, the simulator covers the BeiDou...
Steve Malkos, Android Context Group, Google We’ve come a long way since the inception of GPS. Today, location often is taken for granted, but that’s true of every mainstream technology. It’s...
On Feb. 12, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order establishing a comprehensive national policy to promote the responsible use of positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services by the...
Yesterday we posted news of an 11-hour downtime for the full GLONASS constellation, due to an upload of bad ephemerides. Coincidentally, during that 11-hour period, the mass-market chip company...
The Mark 3 Plotting Board was used in single-seat aircraft flying in the Pacific. (Photo: National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution) On June 25, 1945, in the last few months of World...
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...
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,...
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...
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,...
Bruce Carlson, president of Carlson Software, and William “Butch” Herter talk about the company’s new BRx5 GNSS Receiver and Surveyor2 data collector, among others,...
China successfully launched the penultimate Beidou navigation satellite on March 9. An official Xinhuanet news release has not yet been issued, but CGTN — a television station partially funded by...
The UK’s emergency service responders and other critical services could be set for more resilient time systems through the National Timing Centre. The United Kingdom has established a new timing...
Photo: Angsa Robotics Startup Angsa Robotics was named the overall winner of the Galileo Masters 2020 competition for its autonomous rubbish robot. According to Angsa Robotics,...
Coalition gives voice to PNT companies seeking open-market approach to backing up GPS/GNSS for critical infrastructure Several GNSS and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) companies have joined...
NASA will be hosting the national space-based PNT advisory board meeting on July 1. The meeting will be held virtually, rather than in-person, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Eastern Time. NASA sponsors the...
A new miniature atomic clock offers improvements to temperature sensitivity and long-term drift, which correlate to longer holdover durations. Features important to mobile applications —warm-up...
Northrop Grumman and Boeing have responded to a U.S. Air Force call for contractors interested in building a follow-on set of GPS III satellites, according to a report in Space News . Lockheed Martin...