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China Satellite Navigation Conference opens in Beijing
May 23, 2019 (XNA)
The BDS is China's self-developed navigation system and is compatible with other navigation systems. According to Ran Chengqi, director of the China Satellite N...
Tug-of-war drives magnetic north sprint
May 16, 2019 (ESA)
Unlike our geographic North Pole, which is in a fixed location, magnetic north wanders. This has been known since it was first measured in 1831, and subsequentl...
DLR tests the City-ATM system at the Kohlbrand Bridge in Hamburg
May 16, 2019 (SPX)
The German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) and its partners in the City Air Traffic Management (City-ATM) project conducted su...
GSA launches testing campaign for agriculture receivers
May 06, 2019 (SPX)
Within this testing campaign, receivers usually used for machine guidance tasks will be thoroughly tested for their performance in various test cases, looking a...
CGI and Thales sign contract for secure Galileo satellite navigation services
May 03, 2019 (SPX)
CGI will improve the functionality, robustness and reliability of Galileo's ground infrastructure, as well as enhance and maintain software for its Public Regul...
China launches new BeiDou satellite
Apr 23, 2019 (XNA)
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 44th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the first BDS-3 satellite in inclined geosynchronous Earth ...
Industry collaboration on avionics paves the way for GAINS navigation demonstration flights
Apr 10, 2019 (SPX)
GAINS - General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union's Horizon 2020 res...
Record-Breaking Satellite Advances NASA's Exploration of High-Altitude GPS
Apr 05, 2019 (SPX)
After navigation maneuvers conducted this February, MMS now reaches over 116,300 miles from Earth at the highest point of its orbit, or about halfway to the Moo...
China, Arab states eye closer cooperation on satellite navigation to build Space Silk Road
Apr 03, 2019 (XNA)
Speaking at the second China-Arab States BDS Cooperation Forum held in the Tunisian capital Tunis, the officials and experts agreed that increased application o...
Second GPS III satellite arrives at Cape Canaveral ahead of July launch
Mar 27, 2019 (UPI)
The satellite, nicknamed "Magellan," arrived in Cape Canaveral on March 18 aboard a U.S. Air Force C-17 plane from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado. The satel...
GPS 3 space vehicle 02 Magellan arrives in Florida; prepares for July launch
Mar 24, 2019 (SPX)
"The shipment of this second GPS III satellite is once again an excellent representation of the collaborative effort and increasing efficiencies of SMC's push t...
Russia plans to launch Glonass-M satellite in mid-May
Mar 24, 2019 (XNA)
"The launch of a Glonass-M navigation satellite has been tentatively planned in mid-May from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome for maintaining the performance of the orbi...
Earliest known Mariner's Astrolabe published in Guinness Book of Records
Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)
The scientific process of verifying the disc as an astrolabe by laser imaging is described in a paper published by Mearns and Jason Warnett and Mark Williams of...
Frequency Electronics to qualify atomic clocks for potential use on GPS 3F Satellites
Mar 19, 2019 (SPX)
The contract's intent is to qualify FEI's DRAFS for potential use on the new GPS IIIF satellites, securing the industrial base for high-accuracy Global Position...
Earliest known mariner's astrolabe described in new study
Mar 18, 2019 (UPI)
Researchers with the Warwick Manufacturing Group, WMG, part of the University of Warwick, used laser imaging technology to confirm the stone disk as a mariner's...
One step closer to a clock that could replace GPS and Galileo
Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)
Currently, the UK is reliant on the US and the EU for the satellite mapping that many of us have on our phones and in our cars. That makes us vulnerable not onl...
ESA joins with business to invent the future of navigation
Mar 12, 2019 (ESA)
But it is easy to forget that satellite navigation is only a means to an end - that end being to provide positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) services to ev...
IAI unveils improved anti-jamming GPS
Mar 06, 2019 (UPI)
While most navigation, communication and electronic warfare systems rely on continuous availability of multiple satellites for navigation, the majority of world...
Orolia launches the world's first Galileo enabled PLB
Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)
Continuing Orolia's innovation and leadership role in Safety Electronics, the PLBs have been upgraded to include Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNS...
Angry Norway says Russia jamming GPS signals again
Feb 11, 2019 (AFP)
In its annual national risk assessment report, the intelligence service said that in repeated incidents since 2017, GPS signals have been blocked from Russian t...
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