GPS - ROBO DAILY

Dec 27, 2013 (SPX)

GameSim has announced that it expects to close this year with 30 percent overall company growth and $3.6 million in revenue. Ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of t...

Raytheon receives $16 million contract award for miniaturized airborne GPS receivers

Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)

Raytheon has received a $15.8 million contract order for its MAGR 2000-S24 miniaturized airborne GPS receiver. The order, which includes new production and sust...

CSP MEMS Oscillator Paired with Mini GPS Receiver

Dec 19, 2013 (SPX)

Telit Wireless Solutions and SiTime Corporation have announced that together - Telit's Jupiter SE880 and SiTime's SiT15xx oscillators - have enabled the world's...

USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Contract to Complete Two More GPS III Satellites

Dec 18, 2013 (SPX)

The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin more than $200 million in contract options to complete production of its fifth and sixth next-generation Global P...

Lockheed Martin to build 2 more U.S. Air Force satellites

Dec 18, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. Air Force has modified contracts to see through completion of two more satellites being built by Lockheed Martin, the aviation and aerospace manufactur...

Nepal uses satellite to track rare snow leopard

Dec 18, 2013 (AFP)

Wildlife experts in Nepal are tracking a rare snow leopard by using a collar with a satellite link to discover how climate change and human encroachment are aff...

Galileo achieves its first airborne tracking

Dec 13, 2013 (ESA)

ESA's Galileo satellites have achieved their very first aerial fix of longitude, latitude and altitude, enabling the inflight tracking of a test aircraft. ESA's...

'Smart' wig navigates by GPS, monitors brainwaves

Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)

Are you both bald AND lost? Then the new "SmartWig" from Japan might be just what you need. The techno-toupe, which can read the wearer's brainwaves and direct ...

CIA, Pentagon trying to hinder construction of GLONASS stations in US

Nov 22, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

The US Department of Defense and Central Intelligence Agency have been trying to persuade the US State Department not to allow Roscosmos to build several GLONAS...

GPS 3 Prototype Communicates With GPS Constellation

Nov 22, 2013 (SPX)

The Lockheed Martin prototype of the next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite, the GPS III, recently proved it was backward-compatible with the...

Russia to enforce GLONASS Over GPS

Nov 13, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

As of 2014, phones with only GPS will be illegal in Russia, Moskovskiy Komsomolets writes. In order to be imported into the country, mobile devices will have to...

How pigeons may smell their way home

Nov 07, 2013 (SPX)

Homing pigeons, like other birds, are extraordinary navigators, but how they manage to find their way back to their lofts is still debated. To navigate, birds r...

UK conservationists using location-based system ManagePlaces

Nov 06, 2013 (SPX)

A project management tool for remote team working has been chosen by space industry heads as the most promising new UK business using satellite data. The tool i...

A Better Way to Track Your Every Move

Nov 05, 2013 (SPX)

Physical activity tracking apps on smart phones are a potentially important tool for doctors who want to collect data and create treatment or intervention plans...

China's satellite navigation system to start oversea operation next year

Nov 01, 2013 (XNA)

China's homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System will be put into its first oversea operation in Thailand early next year. The announcement was made in Bang...

Russia, US to protect satellite navigation systems at UN level

Oct 31, 2013 (Voice of Russia)

Russia and the United States, concerned about competition from navigation systems being developed by the European Union and China, intend to secure frequency sp...

Britain considering car-tracking 'bullet' technology

Oct 29, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. company behind a GPS "bullet" that can track the location of a crime suspect's car says it hopes to bring the technology to Britain. The bullet by Star...

Russia Retires Faulty Glonass-M Satellite

Oct 28, 2013 (RIA Novosti)

A satellite in the fleet of Russia's answer to GPS has been decommissioned because of a terminal malfunction, space officials said Tuesday. The Federal Space Ag...

Orbcomm Launches Solar-Powered Trailer Tracking Solution

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

ORBCOMM reports the commercial launch of its GT 1100 trailer tracking solution to the transportation and distribution industry at the American Trucking Associat...

Raytheon demonstrates first Direct Geo-Positioning Metric Sensor

Oct 28, 2013 (SPX)

For the first time, Raytheon has integrated an advanced targeting capability into the U.S. Army's Common Sensor Payload (CSP) airborne intelligence, surveillanc...