GPS

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Tunisia to host 2nd forum on China-Arab BeiDou cooperation
Nov 12, 2018 (XNA)
Ma Jiaqing, deputy director of the China Satellite Navigation Office, said the country's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) will provide services to count...
World's first 'Quantum' compass will supersede GPS
Nov 12, 2018 (Sputnik)
The instrument, built by scientists at the Imperial College in London, England, is claimed to be able to ascertain the exact location of anything on Earth witho...
Air Force taps Rockwell for jam-resistant GPS navigation systems
Nov 12, 2018 (UPI)
The DIGAR is designed to prevent jamming of GPS signals, providing more reliable and electromagnetic radiation resistant navigation systems for aircraft. This p...
Finnish PM: Jammed GPS signals may be work of Russia
Nov 12, 2018 (AFP)
Finnish prime minister Juha Sipila told state broadcaster YLE on Sunday that "civil air safety has been endangered" by the GPS interference. The authorities wer...
China successfully launches 41st BeiDou Navigation System Satellite
Nov 05, 2018 (Sputnik)
The lift-off took place at 11:56 p.m. (15:56 GMT) on Thursday from the Xichang space center in the southwest of China. The satellite will be connected to the na...
China launches BeiDou-3 navigation satellite into highest orbit yet
Nov 05, 2018 (XNA)
Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 41st of the BeiDou navigation system, and will work with 16 other Beidou-3 satellites already in orbit. It...
China launches twin BeiDou-3 satellites
Oct 16, 2018 (XNA)
The satellites are the 39th and 40th of the BeiDou navigation system, and the 15th and 16th of the BeiDou-3 family. The launch was the 287th mission of the Long...
Army researchers' technique locates robots, soldiers in GPS-challenged areas
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
According to ARL researchers Gunjan Verma and Dr. Fikadu Dagefu, the Army needs to be able to localize agents operating in physically complex, unknown and infra...
String theory: Is dark energy even allowed?
Oct 10, 2018 (SPX)
Timm Wrase of the Vienna University of Technology quickly realized something odd about this conjecture: it seemed to be incompatible with the existence of the H...
Boeing to provide technical work on JDAM GPS-guided bombs
Oct 04, 2018 (UPI)
Boeing will provide JDAM studies and analysis, upgrades and other services under the modification, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense. Work will b...
Lockheed awarded $1.4B for first GPS IIIF satellites
Sep 27, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defese, provides for engineering, space vehicle test bed and simulators, and production of GPS IIIF Space...
New Study Tracks Hurricane Harvey Stormwater with GPS
Sep 24, 2018 (JPL)
In a new, NASA-led study, scientists used Global Positioning System (GPS) data to answer that question and to track not just where Harvey's stormwater ended up ...
First satellite for GPS III upgrades to launch in December
Sep 20, 2018 (UPI)
While civilians and businesses around the world depend on GPS for everyday communications and navigation, the military requires constant location information tr...
AF Announces selection of GPS III follow-on contract
Sep 19, 2018 (AFNS)
"The world is dependent on GPS, from getting directions to getting cash from an ATM or trading on the stock exchange," said Secretary of the Air Force Heather W...
Lockheed Martin preps ground support for GPS 3 sats and M-Code ops
Sep 13, 2018 (SPX)
In 2016 and 2017, the Air Force placed Lockheed Martin under two contracts, called GPS III Contingency Operations (COps) and M-Code Early Use (MCEU), which dire...
'Robat' uses sound to navigate and map unique environments
Sep 12, 2018 (SPX)
Bats use echolocation to map novel environments, navigating them by emitting sound then extracting information from the echoes reflected by objects in their sur...
Antenova offers ultra-small GNSS active antenna module for difficult locations
Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)
The M20047-1 antenna module comprises an SMD antenna with built-in active components: an LNA filter and SAW to boost antenna performance - so designers will not...
Space sector to benefit from multi-million pound work on UK alternative to Galileo
Aug 30, 2018 (SPX)
Satellite navigation systems like GPS are increasingly important for commercial, military and other critical applications, from guiding aircraft, ships and emer...
UK plans own satellite system after Galileo exclusion
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
At the same time, London said it was continuing to negotiate with the European Union about remaining in the Galileo programme. Britain will invest 92 million ($...
US Air Force's first advanced GPS 3 satellite shipped to Cape Canaveral
Aug 28, 2018 (spx)
On August 20, Lockheed Martin shipped the U.S. Air Force's first GPS III space vehicle (GPS III SV01) to Cape Canaveral for its expected launch in December. Des...
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