U.S. Capitol Building. (Photo: RNTF) Last week, 27 members of the U.S. House Agriculture Committee sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai. In it, they urged him...
u-blox’s has revealed its latest receiver, the miniature Untethered Dead Reckoning (UDR) EVA-M8E. Measuring 7 millimeters by 7 millimeters, the EVA-M8E is designed to provide positioning...
Septentrio has entered into a commercial agreement with Sapcorda, a global provider of sub-decimeter GNSS corrections. Through the collaboration with Sapcorda, Septentrio will pioneer an no-hassle...
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...
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...
Sony GNSS receivers. (left) CXD5610GF, (right) CXD5610GG. (Image: Sony) Sony Corporation plans to release a high-precision GNSS receiver for use in internet of things (IoT) and wearable devices. The...
Jackson Labs Technologies Inc. (JLT) has entered the GNSS simulation and synthesis market with the small size, weight and power (SWAP) CLAW GPS/GNSS simulator. The CLAW is only slightly larger...
u-blox’s has revealed its latest receiver, the miniature Untethered Dead Reckoning (UDR) EVA-M8E. Measuring 7 millimeters by 7 millimeters, the EVA-M8E is designed to provide positioning...
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...
4- and 7-channel research and evaluation platforms The NT1065_USB3 and Multi_GNSS_Grabber_Board are research and evaluation platforms for professional navigation receivers, based on NTLab’s RF...
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...
NASA’s Space Communications and Navigation (SCaN) program is developing capabilities that will allow missions at high altitudes to take advantage of GNSS signals for timing and navigation,...
Image: A-Digit/DigitalVision Vectors/Getty Images The GPS Innovation Alliance filed an ex parte with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regarding its Ligado decision. This follows a letter...
A newly published white paper by Loctronix Corporation presents preliminary test results of its Interference Detection System (IDS), which included capturing two separate incidents of intentional...
Parked cars near ground station decreased accuracy from 2 to 4 centimeters A new study shows that the quality of GNSS reflectometry measurements may have improved significantly during the pandemic...
The Septentrio PolaRx5 GNSS receiver. Septentrio has released version 5.1.0 firmware for the PolaRx5 product line of GNSS reference receivers. The 5.1.0 firmware brings new features for file...
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....
By Sandra Verhagen High-precision Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning results are obtained with carrier phase measurements, once the integer cycle ambiguities have been successfully...
Russia has launched another GLONASS-M satellite, according to Roscosmos, the Russian State Space Corporation. A Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle successfully carried the satellite to its planned orbit from...
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...