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China launches new twin BeiDou navigation satellites
Aug 27, 2018 (XNA)
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 7:52 a.m.. It was the 283rd mission of...
Lockheed's first GPS III satellite shipped to Florida for launch
Aug 27, 2018 (UPI)
The satellite was shipped from Buckley Air Force Base in Colorado to the Cape on August 20 on an Air Force C-17 cargo aircraft, Lockheed Martin announced on Mon...
US Air Force declares second Lockheed Martin GPS 3 satellite ready for launch
Aug 23, 2018 (SPX)
The Air Force's "Available for Launch" declaration is the final acceptance of Lockheed Martin's second GPS III Space Vehicle (GPS III SV02) - declaring it techn...
Air Force declares second GPS III satellite ready to launch
Aug 21, 2018 (UPI)
The Air Force declaration, detailed in a Lockheed Martin news release Tuesday, calls for final acceptance of the company's GPS III Space Vehicle 2. The satellit...
Nordic nations, North Americans and Antipodeans rank top in navigation skills
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers assessed data from over half a million people in 57 countries who played a specially-designed mobile game, which has been developed to aid understan...
Envistacom contracted for DAGRS GPS systems
Aug 07, 2018 (UPI)
The contract, announced Tuesday by the company, is valued at up to $480 million over five years and covers both U.S. Army and Navy customers. The contract will ...
UK could develop independent satellite system after leaving EU
Aug 03, 2018 (Sputnik)
According to the sources, the EU chief Brexit negotiator is contemplating an offer to the UK that will give London an advantage over the use of the encrypted se...
China launches new twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites
Jul 31, 2018 (XNA)
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 9:48 a.m., the 281st mission of the Lo...
Arianespace orbits four more Galileo satellites, as Ariane 5 logs its 99th mission
Jul 26, 2018 (ESA)
Today's launch was the 99th mission by the Ariane 5 heavy launcher. It was carried out on behalf of the European Commission as part of a contract with the Europ...
GMV and Tecnobit partners with Skydel
Jul 24, 2018 (SPX)
GMV, Tecnobit, and Skydel aim to provide corporations, universities, and research labs with a reliable, advanced simulation system that closely follows the late...
Europe's next Galileo satellites in place atop Ariane 5
Jul 16, 2018 (ESA)
The launcher - appearing headless in the absence of its final payload - was moved from the BIL Launcher Integration Building, where it was assembled, to the BAF...
Love navigated by Beidou
Jul 12, 2018 (XNA)
Ten years ago, Cui Bo, a designer for the Beidou power system, wrote a poem lauding those dedicated to space exploration to mark the 40th anniversary of the fou...
CTSi flight tests prototype navigation system to replace GPS in highly contested environments for US Navy
Jul 11, 2018 (SPX)
Designated the Enhanced Link Navigation System (ELNS), the prototype was built under a Navy $8.7M Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase III contract a...
Next four Galileo satellites fuelled for launch
Jul 04, 2018 (ESA)
The four satellites were placed into their protective containers to be transported from the S1A processing building to the S3B payload preparation building, whe...
NASA Tests Solar Sail for CubeSat that Will Study Near-Earth Asteroids
Jul 03, 2018 (SPX)
NEA Scout is a six-unit CubeSat that relies on an innovative solar sail for propulsion. It is one of 13 secondary science payloads NASA selected to fly on EM-1....
India's Domestic SatNav System Hits Major Roadblock Ahead of Commercial Release
Jul 03, 2018 (Sputnik)
According to the ISRO, the seven-satellite constellation sends signals in frequency bands of L5 (1176.45 MHz) and S-band (2492.08 MHz). The S-band frequency is ...
Russia launches Soyuz-21b with Glonass-M navigation satellite
Jun 19, 2018 (Sputnik)
"On Sunday, at 00:46 Moscow time [21:46 GMT]... the Space Forces of the Aerospace Forces successfully launched a middle-class Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket with a n...
China's Beidou system helps livestock water supply in remote pastoral areas
Jun 19, 2018 (XNA)
The trial of the new system, based on the Beidou Navigation Satellite System, was launched in the Kubuqi desert. "The system can provide water for livestock aft...
UK says shut out of EU's Galileo sat-nav contracts
Jun 14, 2018 (AFP)
"I think this is really a case of the European Union doing damage to themselves," junior defence minister Guto Bebb told parliament, following a vote at the Eur...
What exclusion from Galileo could mean for UK
Jun 11, 2018 (Sputnik)
Reacting to the European Union's move, UK Brexit Secretary David Davis lashed out the European Commission, saying that it was "shooting itself in the foot just ...
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