GPS - ROBO DAILY

Apr 06, 2022 (ESA)

Anytime you venture beyond mobile phone network coverage, such as hiking in wilderness, sailing out to sea or taking to the air, you are stepping into a riskier...

NASA uses moonlight to improve satellite accuracy

Apr 05, 2022 (SPX)

"The Moon is extremely stable and not influenced by factors on Earth like climate to any large degree. It becomes a very good calibration reference, an independ...

Identifying RF and GPS interferences for military applications with satellite data

Mar 25, 2022 (SPX)

Spire will play a pivotal role in the contract by supplying Slingshot Aerospace with GPS telemetry data, a task underway since the two companies began collabora...

Turn your phone into a space monitoring tool

Mar 23, 2022 (ESA)

The CAMALIOT app, developed through ESA's Navigation Innovation and Support Programme (NAVISP) with the support of the Agency's GNSS Science Support Centre, is ...

Ukraine war disrupts GPS in Finland, Mediterranean

Mar 18, 2022 (AFP)

Disruptions to Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), which include GPS, are caused by the "jamming" or "spoofing" of satellite signals. Since the war erup...

China's BeiDou enters new phase of stable services, rapid development

Mar 13, 2022 (XNA)

Measured by the global continuous monitoring and evaluation system, the BDS-3 system shows an advanced performance index in providing global positioning, naviga...

Galileo 2nd generation satellites ready to navigate into the future

Mar 09, 2022 (SPX)

This paves the way for further verification, acceptance and qualification at equipment and module level. Verification at payload level is already in full swing,...

Northrop Grumman equips US Marines with Next Generation Handheld Targeting Device

Feb 23, 2022 (SPX)

"NGHTS will significantly enhance the ability of Marines to identify ground targets under a wide range of conditions," said Bob Gough, vice president, navigatio...

The drone has landed

Feb 11, 2022 (ESA)

The NavLab, based at ESA's ESTEC technical centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, is focused on the testing, analysis and characterisation of navigation systems ...

China completes health check on BDS satellite constellation

Jan 26, 2022 (XNA)

The center said the satellites met all key indicators, meaning the constellation can provide services without issue. The evaluation was conducted without interr...

Providing GPS-quality timing accuracy without GPS

Jan 21, 2022 (SPX)

To address this scenario, DARPA has announced the Robust Optical Clock Network (ROCkN) program, which aims to create optical atomic clocks with low size, weight...

Arianespace to launch eight new Galileo satellites

Jan 10, 2022 (SPX)

These will be the 13th to 16th Galileo missions by Arianespace, which has orbited all satellites in the constellation. The European Union Agency for the Space P...

Two new satellites mark further enlargement of Galileo

Dec 09, 2021 (ESA)

ESA Director of Navigation Paul Verhoef comments: "This liftoff marks the 11th Galileo launch of operational satellites in ten years: a decade of hard work by E...

Galileo satellites given green light for launch

Nov 30, 2021 (ESA)

Galileo satellites 27 - 28 are scheduled to be launched by a Soyuz launcher from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 December at 01:31 CET (1 December at 2...

Brain and coat from RUAG Space for Galileo navigation satellites

Nov 29, 2021 (SPX)

"We have played an important role in building the European Galileo navigation system from day one," says Luis De Leon Chardel, Executive Vice President at RUAG ...

Galileo pathfinder de-commissioned after 16 years of in-orbit service

Nov 29, 2021 (SPX)

The procedure involved transitioning the satellite to Earth pointing mode , turning off the reaction wheels and setting the attitude and orbit control system to...

Galileo satellites in place for launch

Nov 26, 2021 (ESA)

Galileo satellites 27 - 28 are scheduled to be launched from Soyuz from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on 2 December at 01:31 CET (1 December at 21:31:27 l...

US Space Force contracts Lockheed Martin for three more GPS IIIF satellites

Nov 16, 2021 (SPX)

This contract option is for GPS IIIF space vehicles 15, 16 and 17 (SV15-17). GPS IIIF satellites build off the innovative design of Lockheed Martin's next gener...

Spirent Offers First Commercially Available Test Capability for Galileo HAS

Nov 11, 2021 (SPX)

Galileo HAS will provide free-of-charge high-accuracy Precise Point Positioning corrections through the Galileo E6-B signal, with accuracy under two decimeters,...

China to share its Beidou expertise

Nov 10, 2021 (XNA)

Officials, industry leaders and researchers from China, several African nations and the African Union shared their thoughts at the First China-Africa Beidou Sys...