The United Arab Emirates (UAE) will launch the first of two navigation satellites in 2021, according to the Emirates News Agency (WAM), spurred by the successful launch of a Mars probe on July 19....
Navilock, a trademark of Tragant Handels- und Beteiligungs GmbH, announces a new family of GLONASS receiver products including the NL-662U USB-based receiver, equipped with a u-blox GLONASS chipset....
Image: NOAA On June 26, the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) released the summary of the results of Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) Round 2. View the summary here. In...
By Thomas A. Stansell, Kenneth W. Hudnut, and Richard G. Keegan The new GPS L1C signal will be broadcast by the Block III satellites, with first launches as early as 2014. L1C innovations...
Aircraft position as obtained by Galileo-only receiver during Netherlands flight. The European Space Agency’s Galileo satellites have achieved their first aerial fix of longitude, latitude...
A team of Canadian and German researchers have obtained precise three-dimensional positions using measurements from the four prototype Galileo satellites now in orbit. The two In-Orbit Validation...
Ashton Carter, U.S. deputy secretary for Defense, and John Porcari, deputy secretary for Transportation, have written an official letter to the assistant secretary of Commerce stating that “there...
Generating Distorted GNSS Signals Using a Signal Simulator By Mathieu Raimondi, Eric Sénant, Charles Fernet, Raphaël Pons, Hanaa Al Bitar, Francisco Amarillo Fernández, and Marc Weyer INNOVATION...
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...
As a result of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) between the U.S. Coast Guard and UrsaNav, Inc., on-air tests are being conducted from the former Loran Support Unit site in New...