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China launches two new BeiDou satellites
Sep 24, 2019 (XNA)
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, the two satellites entered orbit. They are the 47th and 48th satellites of the BDS satellite family. The new satelli...
Number of China's in-orbit BeiDou satellites reaches 39
Sep 09, 2019 (XNA)
At present, the BDS, independently constructed and operated by China, has officially provided RNSS (Radio Navigation Satellite System) services worldwide, with ...
Second Lockheed Martin-Built Next Generation GPS III Satellite Responding to Commands, Under Self-Propulsion
Aug 23, 2019 (SPX)
At 11:01 a.m. ET, Air Force and Lockheed Martin engineers at Lockheed Martin's Launch and Checkout Facility near Denver declared they had full control of GPS II...
GPS 3 satellite ready for launch aboard Delta 4
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
The Lockheed Martin GPS III SV02 is set to launch Aug. 22 aboard an United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV rocket. The launch window opens at 9 a.m. EDT and will...
Newest GPS satellite scheduled to launch Thursday in Florida
Aug 22, 2019 (SPX)
It's the second in a new, third generation of GPS satellites for the nation, designed and built by Lockheed Martin to be more accurate with more protection agai...
UK seeking to enlist 'Five Eyes' for rival Galileo GPS system
Aug 20, 2019 (Sputnik)
The UK is reaching out to its "Five Eyes" security allies to enlist their help in building an alternative to the EU's Global Navigation Satellite System Galileo...
Tiny GPS backpacks uncover the secret life of desert bats
Aug 17, 2019 (SPX)
Wildlife tracking has revolutionized the study of animal movement and their behavior. Yet, tracking small, flying animals such as desert bats remained challengi...
GPS signals no longer disrupted in Israeli airspace
Aug 06, 2019 (AFP)
Some experts had suggested the disruption could have been the result of Russian military operations in neighbouring Syria, but Moscow has denied it was the caus...
Evolution of space, 2SOPS prepares for GPS Block III
Aug 05, 2019 (SPX)
Staff Sgt. Joseph Wood, 2nd SOPS mission chief, said the model is a physical representation of the modernization underway. "The GPS III provides improved capabi...
An AI technology to reveal the characteristics of animal behavior only from the trajectory
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
In this study, Shuhei Yamazaki and colleagues have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) technology, first, to estimate an animal's behavioral state, such a...
European Galileo satellite navigation system resumes Initial Services
Jul 22, 2019 (SPX)
The Search and Rescue Service, which is used to locate and assist people in emergency situations, for example, at sea or in remote, mountainous areas, was not a...
Europe's Galileo GPS system back after six-day outage
Jul 18, 2019 (AFP)
"Commercial users can already see signs of recovery of the Galileo navigation and timing services, although some fluctuations may be experienced until further n...
Europe's GPS rival Galileo suffers outage
Jul 15, 2019 (AFP)
The European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) said the outage was caused by a "technical incident related to its ground infrastructure". Galileo...
Second Lockheed Martin-Built GPS III Satellite Ready for July 25 Liftoff
Jul 09, 2019 (SPX)
On June 26, Lockheed Martin Space and United Launch Alliance (ULA) technicians completed encapsulating GPS III Space Vehicle 02 (GPS III SV02) in its launch fai...
NASA Eyes GPS at the Moon for Artemis Missions
Jul 01, 2019 (SPX)
A team at NASA is developing a special receiver that would be able to pick up location signals provided by the 24 to 32 operational Global Positioning System sa...
Planes landing in Israel see GPS signals disrupted
Jun 27, 2019 (AFP)
It has baffled authorities who have failed to find the source and forced airports to change some landing procedures, a spokesman for the Israel Airports Authori...
Lockheed Martin Delivers GPS III Contingency Operations
Jun 12, 2019 (SPX)
On May 22, Lockheed Martin delivered the GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) software upgrade to the U.S. Air Force's current GPS ground control system. The u...
China to complete BeiDou-3 satellite system by 2020
Jun 10, 2019 (XNA)
China has deployed three systems, BDS-1, BDS-2 and BDS-3, to provide accurate positioning and navigation services to the world, said Jin Shuanggen, a researcher...
China to launch six to eight BDS-3 satellites this year
May 27, 2019 (XNA)
Two to four BDS-3 satellites will be launched in 2020 when the BDS-3 system will be fully completed, said Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite Navigatio...
China's satellite navigation industry scale to exceed 400 billion yuan in 2020
May 27, 2019 (XNA)
"Currently, we have built the complete industry chain which is made up of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) basic products, application terminals and...
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