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...
Combining Galileo with GPS and GLONASS By Mirko Stanisak, Mark Bitter, and Thomas Feuerle INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley GPS = SAFER FLIGHT. While reviewing material for an article...
GPS World , in conjunction with Spirent Federal Systems, will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 8 that will cover GPS program updates, as well as the program’s role in the Space and Missile...
By Ruizhi Chen, Heidi Kuusniemi, Yuwei Chen, Ling Pei, Wei Chen, Jingbin Liu, Helena Leppäkoski, Jarmo Takala Currently, no single technology, system, or sensor can provide a positioning solution...
Testing the Feasibility of Positioning Using Ambient Light By Jingbin Liu, Ruizhi Chen, Yuwei Chen, Jian Tang, and Juha Hyyppä INNOVATION INSIGHTS by Richard Langley AND THEN THERE WAS LIGHT....
By Greg Gerten & Geoffrey Hella, Centauri Corp. Greg Gerten, Centauri Corp. With the rise in public unrest from COVID-19 and increasing numbers of remote operations, the susceptibility and...
Averna, a developer of test solutions and services for communications and electronics device-makers worldwide, has acquired U.S.-based Cal-Bay Systems, a privately owned provider of test systems,...
The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) has issued a call for papers for the Navigation 2021 conference. The conference, which as of now will be held virtually Nov. 15-18, 2021, will bring together...
The Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) has issued a call for papers for the Navigation 2021 conference. The conference, which as of now will be held virtually Nov. 15-18, 2021, will bring together...
Photo: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.com Eight senators sent a letter on June 4 to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Ajit Pai asking a series of questions about the agency’s decision on...
Telit has launched the LM940, a global Full PCI Express Mini Card (mPCIe) module for the router and gateway industry supporting LTE Advanced Category 11 (Cat 11) with speeds of up to 600 Mbps. The...
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...
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...
An Introduction to Bandwidth, Gain Pattern, Polarization and All That How do you find best antenna for particular GNSS application, taking into account size, cost, and capability? We look at the...
Brazilian geoscience services company OceanPact Geociências has chosen deep-water positioning technology from Sonardyne Brasil Ltda. to support its geophysical, geotechnical and environmental...
Its Algorithms and Performance The authors test three mass-market design drivers on a chip developed expressly for a new role as a combined GPS and Galileo consumer receiver: the time-to-first-fix...
The GSG-51 GNSS signal generator provides a fast and cost-effective solution for production testing for Galileo and other GNSS. It emulates a single GNSS signal and can be upgraded for Galileo, as...
The IEEE/ION PLANS Conference has been canceled. The conference — officially the IEEE/ION Position Location and Navigation Symposium (PLANS) — was scheduled to take place April 20-23 in Portland,...
ESA shifts from Galileo transition plan to full second-generation plan. News from the European Space Agency With 26 satellites now in orbit and more than 1.5 billion smartphones and devices worldwide...