L3Harris Technologies has reached a major milestone in the U.S. Air Force’s Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) project — passing the preliminary design review that defines the...
The Spectratime Force 2020 Rubidium clock is designed for the defense market. Spectratime, a provider of high precision atomic clocks and a business of the Orolia Group, has launched the Force 2020....
Spirent Communications has announced major enhancements that will help improve location accuracy for E911 calls indoors. The additional test capabilities on Spirent’s 8100 Location Technology...
Smaller and Better By Reza Movahedinia, Julien Hautcoeur, Gyles Panther and Ken MacLeod Innovation Insights with Richard Langley THE ANTENNA. This crucial component of any radio transmitting or...
A roundup of recent products in the GNSS and inertial positioning industry from the September 2020 issue of GPS World magazine. OEM Inertial sensors Includes four models Photo: SGB Systems The...
IFEN GmbH has launched its new NCS Titan GNSS simulator. The NCS Titan has up to 256 channels (and 1024 multipath channels) and up to 4 RF outputs per chassis, providing flexibility and...
J. David Grossman By J. David Grossman Executive Director GPS Innovation Alliance As we embark on a new year, 2021 ushers in a new administration and the start of the 117th Congress. With these...
Tallysman Wireless Inc. has added two new models to its line of GNSS helical antennas. Also new are two GNSS signal splitters. New Helical Antennas HC976 triple-band helical antenna with L-band,...
Russia launched a new-generation Glonass-K satellite, number 15, into orbit Oct. 25. Unlike its Glonass-M predecessors, Glonass-K satellites carry two types of navigation signals —...
Septentrio has received a contract to supply 35 high-precision GNSS receivers to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) for use in the NASA Global GNSS network (GGN). The NASA GGN is one of the...
Photo: Trimble Trimble has introduced the Trimble AX940 and AX940i high-precision GNSS smart antennas, designed for a broad range of high-precision applications such as precision agriculture,...
Dana Goward, President, Resilient PNT Foundation On Feb. 12, the White House released an “Executive Order on Strengthening National Resilience through Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation,...
TEOCO, a provider of assurance, analytics and optimization solutions to communications service providers, has expanded the testing capabilities of its AIRCOM Device Test Lab in Columbia, Maryland,...
By Frank van Diggelen, Global Locate, Inc. This update to a frequently requested article first published here in 1998 explains how statistical methods can create many different position accuracy...
Rohde & Schwarz will be demonstrating its SMBV100A simulator at ION GNSS+ 2014, and is offering a new Wireless Standards poster for visitors to its booth. Rohde & Schwarz will be...
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center on July 14 delivered the fourth GPS III satellite to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite is scheduled for launch on Sept....
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...
Illustration of side-lobe signals from GPS satellites. (Image: ESA) Two European Space Agency studies found that the signal from navigation satellites orbiting Earth could be used to navigate the...
Yang Changfeng, chief architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System, speaks at an international event. (Photo: BDS) On July 31, 2020, BDS-3, the global version of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite...