Schematic of the GNSS interference detection and analysis system GIDAS. (Image: OHB Digital Solutions) In September 2020, the first GIDAS monitoring stations were installed at the Czech airport in...
Photo: Andrea Izzotti/Shutterstock.com The Keep GPS Working Coalition issued the following statement in support of the inclusion of provisions related to GPS in the William M. “Mac” Thornberry...
The aborted launch of the fourth GPS III satellite has sparked an investigation into the SpaceX Falcon 9’s Merlin engine. With only two seconds before launch, SpaceX stopped the scheduled...
More launches planned for March and May Four new satellites of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) have passed tests in orbit and joined the system to provide positioning, navigation and...
The IGS Workshop, scheduled for September 2021 by the International GNSS Service (IGS), has been postponed to 2022. The IGS Central Bureau voted for the postponement in December during its governing...
Approval is given for Arianespace’s Ariane 5 flight on July 31 Arianespace’s fifth mission of 2020 has been given the green light for liftoff following a July 29 launch readiness review conducted...
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...
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...
A new high-performance compact GPS/GNSS receiver with an on-board IMU sensor, tailored to the needs of UAV applications Septentrio has released a new GNSS/INS receiver, the AsteRx-i D UAS. This...
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,...
JAVAD GNSS has published a chart showing that it has tracked the IRNSS (Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System) L5 signal. Shortly after the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) released...
Image: ESA The European Commission (EC) is seeking help to build a roadmap for high-accuracy Galileo and EGNOS services. The EC Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG-DEFIS) has...
Last year at InterGeo 2015, UAVs ruled, for at least the second year in a row, although some of its newest-thing gloss seemed to be wearing off. This year, sensor integration in both hardware and...
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,...
Hexagon’s Autonomy and Positioning division has launched its first autonomy positioning and sensing kits for the agriculture market and validated these solutions in its new autonomous research and...
The U.S. Air Force has released the 5th Edition of the GPS Standard Positioning System (SPS) Performance Standard (PS), according to U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center (NAVCEN) Civil GPS Service...
The annual Munich Satellite Navigation Summit has been canceled. Organizers stated, “In light of the current situation caused by the coronavirus as well as related travel restrictions and...
Image: USAF On March 23, the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center successfully transferred the second GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV02) to Space Operations Command. GPS III SV02,...
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...
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...