GPS

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Using artificial intelligence to enrich digital maps
Jan 24, 2020 (SPX)
Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn...
Galileo now replying to SOS messages worldwide
Jan 24, 2020 (ESA)
This ESA-design 'return link' system, unique to Galileo, was declared operational this week, during the 12th European Space Conference in Belgium. The delivery ...
China's international journal Satellite Navigation launched
Jan 22, 2020 (XNA)
The peer-reviewed academic journal "Satellite Navigation" is online in an open-access format, according to the joint sponsor Aerospace Information Research Inst...
FAA warns military training exercise could jam GPS signals in southeast, Caribbean
Jan 17, 2020 (UPI)
An FAA advisory warns pilots could experience "unreliable or unavailable GPS signal" during a training exercise scheduled for Jan. 16 through Jan. 24. The U.S. ...
China Focus: China to complete Beidou-3 satellite system in 2020
Dec 29, 2019 (XNA)
Friday marks the one-year anniversary of China's BDS-3 system providing global service. Ran said at a press conference of the State Council Information Office t...
China's Beidou navigation system to provide unique services
Dec 29, 2019 (XNA)
Along with basic positioning, navigation and time services, the BDS will provide six categories of special services that distinguish it from other systems, said...
From airport approaches to eCall in cars in 10 years with EGNOS
Dec 24, 2019 (ESA)
The purpose of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, EGNOS, is to monitor the real-time performance of US GPS satellites, then generate a corre...
Satnav watching over rugby players
Dec 16, 2019 (ESA)
Rugby is inherently highly physical, but the sport is doing everything it can to limit players playing with concussion. The rules are strict: any player suspect...
US Congress green lights India's NavIC as regional satellite navigation system
Dec 12, 2019 (Sputnik)
Congress has designated India's NavIC - a regional satellite navigation system, as an "allied" navigational system alongside Galileo of the European Union and Q...
Russia postpones Glonass-M launch From Plesetsk over carrier problems
Dec 11, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The launch has been postponed as the third stage of the Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket is not ready", the source said. Meanwhile, Russian State Space Corporation Ro...
China launches two more BeiDou satellites for GPS system
Nov 25, 2019 (XNA)
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket and the Yuanzheng-1 (Expedition-1) upper stage attached to the carrier rocket, the two satellites have entered their ...
Russia to launch glass sphere into space before new year to obtain accurate Earth data
Nov 05, 2019 (Sputnik)
The BLITS-M retroreflector satellite will be launched together with three Gonets-M communications satellites using the Rokot carrier rocket, scheduled to take o...
Lockheed Martin GPS Spatial Temporal Anti-Jam Receiver System to be integrated in F-35 modernization
Nov 03, 2019 (SPX)
The GSTAR system will replace the current Antenna Electronics Unit (AEU) and will provide enhanced capabilities including the next-generation, anti-jam solution...
UK should ditch plans for GPS to tival Galileo
Oct 28, 2019 (Sputnik)
A satellite scientist on Friday proposed the UK Government ditch plans for the country's own full-blown GPS system, while suggesting that an MOD defence program...
GPS III Ground System Operations Contingency Program Nearing Operational Acceptance
Oct 25, 2019 (SPX)
The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally command and control the new, more powerful GPS III satellites as well as legacy GPS satellites current...
ISRO works with Qualcomm to develop improved geo-location chipset
Oct 15, 2019 (Sputnik)
To improve the geo-location capabilities of upcoming mobile phones, automotive and Internet-of-Things (IoT) platforms, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO)...
Satelles, Inc. Secures $26 Million in Series C Funding Round Led by C5 Capital
Oct 10, 2019 (SPX)
Industry and government requirements for positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) are expanding at a rapid pace, and the Satellite Time and Location (STL) broa...
Highly accurate GPS is possible thanks to NASA
Oct 02, 2019 (SPX)
The Air Force began launching global positioning satellites in 1978, and it continues to operate and maintain the satellite network to this day. But over the de...
Northrop Grumman awarded $1.39B for new Air Force navigation system
Sep 30, 2019 (UPI)
The indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, includes production, sustainment and engineering technical ...
Russia develops first ever standard for satellite navigation in Arctic
Sep 25, 2019 (Sputnik)
"The relevant state standard (GOST) is planned to be submitted to Rosstandart [Federal Agency on Technical Regulating and Metrology] for approval before the end...
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