GPS

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US Senator says GPS often fails to track emergency calls
Feb 01, 2015 (Sputnik)
First responders are often not able to pinpoint the location of victims when emergency calls are made from wireless devices due to defects in the US GPS satelli...
NASA Engineer Advances New Daytime Star Tracker
Jan 29, 2015 (SPX)
Scientists who use high-altitude scientific balloons have high hopes for their instruments in the future. Although the floating behemoths that carry their instr...
Congressman claims relying on GLONASS jeopardizes US lives
Jan 28, 2015 (Sputnik)
Depending on a Russian satellite system to route US emergency phone calls, as outlined in a proposal being considered by the US government's main communications...
Europe to resume satnav launches in March: Arianespace
Jan 28, 2015 (AFP)
Europe in March will resume satellite launches for its troubled Galileo navigation system, hoping to boost by at least six the number of orbiters this year, Ari...
911 Assc says lobbyist behind tactics to derail GLONASS
Jan 27, 2015 (Sputnik)
US lobbyist is behind a campaign to derail a proposal being considered by the US government's main communications agency to use Russian satellites to help first...
Turtles use unique magnetic compass to find birth beach
Jan 16, 2015 (UPI)
Every year, adult sea turtles make the journey back to the beaches where they were born. They return year after year to lay their own eggs. Their offspring, fre...
W3C and OGC to Collaborate to Integrate Spatial Data on the Web
Jan 07, 2015 (SPX)
The W3C and the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) have announced a new collaboration to improve interoperability and integration of spatial data on the Web. Spat...
AirAsia disappearance fuels calls for real-time tracking
Dec 30, 2014 (AFP)
After the baffling disappearance in March of Flight MH370, critics accused the aviation industry of "dithering" over equipping jets with real-time tracking syst...
Russia to Debate US Discrimination of Glonass System in UN: Reports
Dec 29, 2014 (Sputnik)
Moscow intends to bring the issue of alleged discrimination against Russia's navigation satellite system GLONASS by the United States to the United Nations, Rus...
Four Galileo satellites at ESA test centre
Dec 26, 2014 (ESA)
ESA engineers unwrapped a welcome Christmas present: the latest Galileo satellite. The navigation satellite will undergo a full checkout in Europe's largest sat...
Russia's Glonass to Provide Brazil With Alternative to GPS
Dec 26, 2014 (Sputnik)
The Russian Global Navigation Satellite System (Glonass) will provide Brazilians with an alternative to the American Global Positioning System (GPS), giving the...
GPS III and OCX Demonstrate Key Satellite Command and Control Capabilities
Dec 23, 2014 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon have successfully completed the fourth of five planned launch and early orbit exercises to demonstrate new automation capabilities,...
China to Roll Out Own Global Navigation System by 2020
Dec 10, 2014 (Sputnik)
China's domestically developed global navigation satellite system Beidou will be fully operational by 2020, Xinhua news agency reported Tuesday citing the head ...
NIST study 'makes the case' for RFID forensic evidence management
Dec 10, 2014 (SPX)
Radio frequency identification (RFID) tags--devices that can transmit data over short distances to identify objects, animals or people--have become increasingly...
GPS analysts bridge gap between launch, orbit
Dec 09, 2014 (AFNS)
The Air Force launched four GPS satellites into orbit this year, the highest number of GPS launches since 1993. As the Air Force continues to upgrade its most r...
Galileo satellite recovered and transmitting navigation signals
Dec 03, 2014 (ESA)
Europe's fifth Galileo satellite, one of two delivered into a wrong orbit by VS09 Soyuz-Fregat launcher in August, has transmitted its first navigation signal i...
Russia Puts Second GLONASS-K Satellite Into Orbit: Defense Ministry
Dec 02, 2014 (Sputnik)
The second new-generation GLONASS-K Russian navigation satellite has been put into orbit, a Defense Ministry spokesperson told RIA Novosti Monday. "The Soyuz-2....
Mislaunched navigation satellite may get 2nd life: ESA
Dec 02, 2014 (AFP)
A navigation satellite sent astray by a mislaunch in August, has sent a signal from its faulty orbit, and may yet prove useful, the European Space Agency (ESA) ...
China's homegrown GPS ready to be used for smartphones
Dec 01, 2014 (XNA)
A Chinese company has rolled out a chip that can help smartphones get easy access to the country's homegrown GPS-like Beidou System. The 40-nanometer chip, deve...
GLONASS-K State Testing to End in 2015: Russian Defense Ministry
Dec 01, 2014 (Sputnik News)
State testing of the new generation of Russian navigational satellites GLONASS-K will be over by 2015, Russia's Aerospace Defense Forces Deputy Commander Maj. G...
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