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Northrop Grumman's Astro Aerospace Receives Follow-On Order for 48 More JIB Antennas for GPS III Satellites
Apr 22, 2013 (SPX)
Northrop Grumman will provide 48 more self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas for Global Positioning System (GPS III) satellites under a follow-on contract from L...
Altus Introduces New GNSS Survey Receiver With 10-cm Terrastar-D
Apr 18, 2013 (SPX)
Altus Positioning Systems has announced the introduction of the new APS-T GNSS survey receiver, which provides global real-time 10-cm positioning using the TERR...
Sat-nav warns London lorry drivers of cyclists
Apr 18, 2013 (AFP)
A British firm has unveiled a sat-nav system that warns lorry drivers when they are approaching roads where they are at high risk of hitting a cyclist. Navevo's...
Lockheed Martin GPS Satellites To Help Test New L2C Signal Civil Navigation Capability to Improve GPS Navigation
Apr 17, 2013 (SPX)
This summer, Lockheed Martin-developed GPS satellites already in orbit will participate in testing of a new modernized civilian navigation message (CNAV) capabi...
Extreme Miniaturization: Seven Devices, One Chip to Navigate without GPS
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
The U.S. Military relies on the space-based Global Positioning System (GPS) to aid air, land and sea navigation. Like the GPS units in many automobiles today, a...
Lockheed Martin Team Completes Delta Preliminary Design for Next GPS III Satellite Capabilities
Apr 11, 2013 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin has completed a Delta Preliminary Design Review (dPDR) for the next Global Positioning System (GPS) III satellite vehicles planned under the U.S...
Down the slopes with space app in your pocket
Apr 11, 2013 (ESA)
Track your skiing, speed, altitude, slopes and lift kilometres with a nifty phone app from an ESA business incubation start-up. Compete against friends, win pri...
Smithsonian dedicates new exhibition to navigation
Apr 10, 2013 (AFP)
Smithsonian curators found themselves chasing the proverbial moving target when they put together a new permanent exhibition opening Friday that explains how pe...
China preps civilian use of GPS system
Apr 02, 2013 (UPI)
China says its Beidou GPS System, which provides services to government and military users, will soon be available to citizens on public mobile phone services. ...
GPS device could stem bike thefts
Mar 29, 2013 (UPI)
A Chicago startup says it's seeking crowdsource funding for its GPS-based theft tracker for bicycles that can alert friends if a cyclist gets in crash. Three Ma...
Apple patent shows pen with GPS, phone
Mar 27, 2013 (UPI)
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has reissued a patent to Apple for a mobile computer encased in a pen, adding cellular and GPS capabilities. Originally ass...
Ground system improves satellite navigation precision
Mar 26, 2013 (XNA)
A ground system aimed at enhancing the navigation precision of China's homegrown BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) was approved in central China's Hubei ...
VectorNav Technologies Announces Partnership With NavtechGPS to Market the VN-200 GPS/INS
Mar 25, 2013 (SPX)
VectorNav Technologies has announced a new strategic partnership with NavtechGPS to market and include the VN-200 GPS/INS and the VN-100 IMU/AHRS into their ext...
Galileo fixes Europe's position in history
Mar 14, 2013 (ESA)
Europe's new age of satellite navigation has passed a historic milestone - the very first determination of a ground location using the four Galileo satellites c...
China city searching for 'modern Marco Polo'
Mar 13, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese city is searching for a foreign traveller to become a "modern Marco Polo", with a 40,000 euro ($52,000) salary on offer to the winner, a tourism offic...
Milestone for European navigation system
Mar 12, 2013 (AFP)
Galileo, Europe's rival to the US Global Positioning System (GPS), passed a milestone Tuesday when it pinpointed its first-ever ground location, the European Sp...
China targeting navigation system's global coverage by 2020
Mar 07, 2013 (XNA)
China's homegrown navigation system BeiDou is expected to achieve full-scale global coverage by around 2020, a leading scientist told Xinhua on Sunday. The BeiD...
Russian GLONASS space satellite group again at full strength
Mar 07, 2013 (VOA)
The Russian orbital navigation group GLONASS has again reached its full strength, which provides for sending its signal to any place on the earth, according to ...
Tracking trains with satellite precision
Mar 04, 2013 (ESA)
Taking a cue from how ESA controls satellites, Spanish railways now have their own high-tech upgrade to keep travellers abreast of when the next train is going ...
USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Contracts to Begin Work on Next Set of GPS III Satellites
Feb 27, 2013 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin two fixed-price contracts totaling $120 million to procure long lead parts for the fifth, sixth, seventh and eigh...
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