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Telit Offers COMBO 2G Chip For Multi Satellite Positioning Receiver
Feb 18, 2013 (SPX)
Telit Wireless Solutions has announced the introduction of the company's first combination 2G-cellular, multi-constellation satellite positioning receiver modul...
Boeing Awarded USAF Contract to Continue GPS Modernization
Feb 15, 2013 (SPX)
Boeing will continue modernizing the Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite constellation for up to five more years, extending the company's role in the vita...
A system that improves the precision of GPS in cities by 90 percent
Feb 14, 2013 (SPX)
Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle's position as comp...
Boeing to modernize U.S. Air Force GPS net
Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)
Boeing will modernize the U.S. Air Force GPS network, including software and systems affecting its constellation of satellites amid increasing competition in sp...
System improves GPS in city locations
Feb 12, 2013 (UPI)
Spanish researchers say a new sensor system can improve the ability of GPS to determine a vehicle's position by up to 90 percent. The system of sensors to work ...
Smart satnav drives around the blue highway blues
Feb 12, 2013 (SPX)
Endlessly frustrated by congested roads, computer scientists at California State University, in Fullerton have developed a satellite navigation system, GeoTNavi...
Lockheed Martin Completes Major GPS III Flight Software Milestone
Feb 08, 2013 (SPX)
The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force's next generation Global Position System III satellites has completed a key flight software milestone val...
Trimble Introduces High-Accuracy Correction Service For Agriculture
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
Trimble has introduced a new high-accuracy correction service available to the agriculture market. The Trimble RangePoint RTX correction service is an introduct...
MediaTek Announces World's First 5-in-1 Multi-GNSS Receiver
Feb 05, 2013 (SPX)
MediaTek has announced the availability of its MT3332/MT3333, the world's first 5-in-1 multi-GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver SoC solutions th...
Fleet Managers Able to Track Drivers' Hours with Vehicle Tracking Systems
Jan 31, 2013 (SPX)
Businesses in the United States are increasingly becoming more and more bonded by the the responsibility of having to keep records and reporting requirements, e...
Galileo's search and rescue system passes first space test
Jan 30, 2013 (ESA)
The first switch-on of a Galileo search and rescue package shows it to be working well. Its activation begins a major expansion of the space-based Cospas-Sarsat...
AFRL Selects Surrey Satellite US to Evaluate Small Satellite Approach to GPS
Jan 22, 2013 (SPX)
The Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) has selected Surrey Satellite Technology US LLC (SST-US) to investigate cost reduction and augmentation of the current ...
Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract to Sustain Ground Station for Global Positioning System
Jan 20, 2013 (SPX)
Continuing a legacy of more than 30 years supporting the Global Positioning System, Lockheed Martin has been awarded a contract to sustain the ground control se...
China promotes Beidou technology on transport vehicles
Jan 16, 2013 (XNA)
Major transportation vehicles in parts of China are now required to use homegrown Beidou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), according to the country's transport...
New location system could compete with GPS
Jan 07, 2013 (UPI)
A positioning technology that could compete with satellite-based global positioning systems can work indoors as well as out, its Australian developers say. Inst...
Researchers told to ward off navigation system interference
Jan 01, 2013 (XNA)
A high-ranking military official on Friday urged researchers to properly maintain China's home-grown navigation system so it can provide steady and reliable ser...
China eyes greater market share for its GPS rival
Jan 01, 2013 (XNA)
China's domestically-produced navigation system aims to take 70 to 80 percent of the now GPS-dominated domestic market by 2020, a spokesman for the system said ...
Beidou's unique services attractive to Chinese companies
Dec 30, 2012 (XNA)
Although Beidou is a latecomer in the world's navigation market, Chinese companies have set their eyes on the unique services provided by the system. Beidou's h...
Beidou helps put region on the map
Dec 30, 2012 (XNA)
The Beidou navigation system began providing services for civilians in the Asia-Pacific region on Thursday. After going through a one-year trial operation and a...
China launches Beidou as rival to GPS
Dec 28, 2012 (AFP)
China has launched commercial and public services across the Asia-Pacific region on its domestic satellite navigation network built to rival the US global posit...
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