GPS

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China sends twin BeiDou-3 navigation satellites into space
Apr 03, 2018 (XNA)
The Long March-3B carrier rocket lifted off from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province at 1:56 a.m. The launch was the 269th mis...
Indra Expands With Four New Stations The Ground Segment Managing Galileo Satellites
Mar 15, 2018 (SPX)
The new stations will join the ten uplink stations that Indra has already put into service and six others currently in development by Indra from a previous cont...
GMV leads a project for application of EGNOS to maritime safety
Mar 07, 2018 (SPX)
Although GPS, GLONASS and Galileo are already up and running, they all need the support of signal augmentation systems to work properly and fulfil their remits....
Why Russia is one step ahead of US Army's plans for future GPS
Feb 12, 2018 (Sputnik)
The project, officially dubbed the Combating Terrorism Technology Startup Challenge (CTTSC3), includes over $200,000 in prizes for ideas using technology like r...
Europe claims 100 million users for Galileo satnav system
Feb 06, 2018 (AFP)
The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to get there. I...
Airbus selected by ESA for EGNOS V3 program
Jan 30, 2018 (SPX)
Developed by ESA on behalf of the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency (GSA), EGNOS V3 (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) will prov...
Pentagon probes fitness-app use after map shows sensitive sites
Jan 29, 2018 (AFP)
The map, made by Strava Labs, shows the movements of its app users around the world, indicating the intensity of travel along a given path. The company says it ...
18 satellites in exactEarth's real-time constellation now in service
Jan 12, 2018 (SPX)
This translates into the quickest, most accurate Satellite AIS data service commercially available, and enables you to complete your maritime picture faster fro...
'Quantum radio' may aid communications and mapping indoors, underground and underwater
Jan 03, 2018 (SPX)
The technology may help mariners, soldiers and surveyors, among others. GPS signals don't penetrate very deeply or at all in water, soil or building walls, and ...
Raytheon to provide GPS-guided artillery shells
Dec 28, 2017 (UPI)
The terms of the deal were made public in a press statement released Thursday by the Department of Defense. The contract is worth more than $70.6 million. The M...
DARPA Subterranean Challenge Aims to Revolutionize Underground Capabilities
Dec 26, 2017 (SPX)
The DARPA Subterranean or "SubT" Challenge aims to explore new approaches to rapidly map, navigate, and search underground environments. Teams from around the w...
New satellite tracking of in-flight aircraft to improve safety
Dec 19, 2017 (SPX)
The United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies - the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) - which establishes world...
US military imagines war without GPS
Dec 19, 2017 (AFP)
But what would happen if an enemy were to target the military's satellites, or somehow jam their signals? The disastrous scenario is one the Pentagon knows all ...
First GPS 3 satellite receives commands from new OCX ground control segment
Dec 15, 2017 (SPX)
On November 2, 2017, GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01), the first of 10 GPS III satellites designed by Lockheed Martin), and OCX, being developed by Rayth...
Arianespace's second Ariane 5 launch for the Galileo constellation and Europe
Dec 11, 2017 (ESA)
This mission is being performed on behalf of the European Commission under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA). For the second time, an Ariane 5 ES ...
Galileo satellites atop rocket for next Tuesday's flight
Dec 11, 2017 (ESA)
Liftoff from Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana is scheduled for 18:36 GMT (19:36 CET, 15:36 local time), carrying Galileo satellites 19-22. Completion...
Space technology to drive autonomous ships
Dec 05, 2017 (ESA)
The partners will pool their expertise to analyse and implement space-enabled services for autonomous and remote-controlled shipping, which reduces the opportun...
Air Force tests Raytheon's GPS receiver aboard B-2 bomber
Dec 05, 2017 (UPI)
The series of tests aboard a B-2 bomber at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., is considered a milestone for the U.S. government-led push to modernize GPS equipment...
Lockheed Martin assembles third US Air Force GPS 3 satellite
Nov 30, 2017 (SPX)
GPS III Space Vehicle 03 (GPS III SV03) followed the first two GPS III satellites on a streamlined assembly and test production line. Technicians successfully i...
DARPA digging for ideas to revolutionize subterranean mapping
Nov 29, 2017 (SPX)
As above-ground commercial and military intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities continue to grow more capable and ubiquitous, adversar...
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