GPS

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Australian continent shifts with the seasons
Nov 11, 2016 (SPX)
Australia shifts and tilts back and forth by several millimeters each year because of changes to the Earth's center of mass, according to a new study. The findi...
Flying the fantastic four
Nov 09, 2016 (ESA)
This month, a single Ariane 5 rocket is set to propel four Galileo satellites into orbit for the navigation constellation's first-ever quadruple launch. Mission...
Russian Space Agency May Launch Up to 4 Glonass Navigation Satellites Next Year
Nov 09, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia's Roscosmos space agency may launch up to four Glonass navigation satellites in 2017, Deputy Director General for Automatic Space Complexes Mikhail Khail...
Swarm reveals why satellites lose track
Nov 02, 2016 (ESA)
Satellite engineers have been puzzling over why GPS navigation systems on low-orbiting satellites like ESA's Swarm sometimes black out when they fly over the eq...
Satellites to spot drones and guide cyclists
Nov 02, 2016 (ESA)
A space-age system for detecting drones took home the grand prize in this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition, while ESA's prize went to a smart sa...
No GPS, no problem: Next-generation navigation
Oct 24, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the University of California, Riverside has developed a highly reliable and accurate navigation system that exploits existing environme...
Australia's coordinates out by more than 1.5 metres: scientist
Oct 05, 2016 (XNA)
Australia has had to change its position on world maps four times in the past 50 years. The country happens to be located on one of the world's fastest-moving t...
US Air Force awards Lockheed Martin $395M Contract for two GPS 3 satellites
Sep 30, 2016 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin $395 million in contract options for the production of the ninth and tenth Global Positioning System III (GPS III...
SMC exercises contract options to procure two additional GPS III satellites
Sep 26, 2016 (SPX)
The Space and Missile Systems Center awarded a contract option to Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company to procure two additional Global Positioning System III ...
Lockheed gets $395 million GPS III Space Vehicle contract modification
Sep 22, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $395 million U.S. Air Force contract modification for work on the GPS III Space Vehicle program. The deal cover...
2 SOPS bids farewell to miracle satellite
Sep 15, 2016 (SPX)
The 2nd Space Operations Squadron bid goodbye to Global Positioning System Satellite Vehicle Number 23 via final command and disposal at Schriever Air Force Bas...
China issues development plan for geoinformation industry
Sep 15, 2016 (XNA)
China has issued a geographic information development plan, vowing to improve its surveying and mapping capability and services. By 2020, the country will estab...
Inferring urban travel patterns from cellphone data
Aug 31, 2016 (SPX)
In making decisions about infrastructure development and resource allocation, city planners rely on models of how people move through their cities, on foot, in ...
Positioning exact to the millimeter
Aug 29, 2016 (SPX)
How many millimeters has the sea level risen? How fast are the continents moving? How big is the impact of high and low pressure areas on the altitude of landma...
Existing navigation data can help pilots avoid turbulence
Aug 15, 2016 (SPX)
Detecting turbulence remains the Achilles' heel of modern-day aviation. The reports submitted by pilots, subjective and often very inaccurate, are the least exp...
Raytheon gets $52 million Miniature Airborne GPS task order
Aug 15, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon has received a $52 million U.S. Air Force task order to modernize the Miniature Airborne Global Positioning System receiver 2000, or MAGR-2K. System wo...
Russia to Develop Unmanned Harvester Running on Glonass Navigation by 2018
Aug 12, 2016 (Sputnik)
Russia is set to develop unmanned agricultural machinery running on the Russian Glonass navigation system by 2018, Russian Izvestia newspaper reported Tuesday, ...
India to Provide Cost Incentives to Use Homemade Version of GPS
Aug 10, 2016 (Sputnik)
According to official sources, India's government is exploring several options, including reduced charges for air navigation services. The Indian government may...
GPS jamming: Keeping ships on the 'strait' and narrow
Jul 22, 2016 (SPX)
The University of Nottingham and Royal Norwegian Naval Academy (RNoNA) are investigating how to prevent shipping Global Positioning Signals (GPS) being jammed i...
China's satnav industry grows 29 pct in 2015
Jul 21, 2016 (XNA)
The output value of China's satellite navigation and location-based service industry grew 29.2 percent year on year in 2015, with the country's self-developed B...
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