By Stéphane Gallot, Pascal Dutot, and Christophe Sajous A new hardware assessment tool automates testing and mission replay, managing military GPS receiver input and output data, with an operational...
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...
NovAtel announces support for the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System on its OEM6 family and select OEMStar GNSS receivers. The long-anticipated BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Interface...
Autonomous GPS Positioning at High Earth Orbits To initially acquire the GPS signals, a receiver also would have to search quickly through the much larger range of possible Doppler shifts and code...
By Hans-Georg Büsing, Ulrich Haak, and Peter Hecker Future safety-relevant driver assistant systems demand vehicle state estimations accurate enough to match the position within a road lane, which...
R&S SMBV100A Rohde & Schwarz extends the functionality of the R&S SMBV100A vector signal generator by adding BeiDou/Compass capability to its integrated GNSS simulator....
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...
Using Microwaves and Laser Ranging for Precise Orbit Determination By Erik Schönemann, Tim A. Springer, Michiel Otten, and Matthias Becker Though Galileo’s GIOVE-A is a test satellite not...
eLoran Gets Trials, Possibly a New Life As 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...
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...