Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The startup plans to launch its first demonstration mission on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 in May, with the goal of displaying high-quality commercial PNT LEO signals from a payload suitable for small satellite deployment.
By Inside GNSS
Speakers at the 14th European Space Conference in Brussels discussed the need to defend EU assets against unfriendly attacks. Recent events in Eastern Europe would seem to lend force to such concerns, as the European Union makes headway toward the intersection of civil infrastructure and security and defense.
By Peter Gutierrez
Will the network, which some are still fighting, be ready for a September rollout, and if so, what are the implications for GPS and the people who rely on it?
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
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The editorial and design staff of Inside Unmanned Systems has been honored for the “Best Single Issue of a Tabloid/Newspaper/Magazine” in its revenue category at the 68th Jesse H. Neal Awards celebrating business-to-business media. The ceremony took place recently in New York.
By Inside GNSS
BizStation, a Japanes database solutions company, along with Switzerland’s u-blox, have announced a highly accurate, compact and low-cost positioning solution for markets in East Asia and Oceania.
By Peter Gutierrez
The NaviMoon satnav receiver is designed to perform lunar positioning using signals from GNSS satellites in Earth orbit. The test version of this unique receiver has been delivered for integration testing onboard the Lunar Pathfinder spacecraft.
By Peter Gutierrez
ADVA’s Ensemble Sync Director GNSS assurance software can now integrate into any unmonitored third party receiver, helping to protect against jamming and spoofing cyberattacks—a growing problem for critical infrastructure and network operators.
By Inside GNSS
Award-winning French company Agreenculture has developed an affordable GNSS RTK-based guidance system for surveying and robotic machine operations in agriculture. AGC Box is rugged, easy to use and flexible, and provides precise and reliable positioning and navigation.
By Peter Gutierrez
The DOD’s Defense Spectrum Office (DSO) recently contracted iPosi and Virginia Tech Applied Research Corporation (VT-ARC) to develop a GPS/GNSS system that measures radio frequency (RF) path-loss, with the goal of increasing shared spectrum without interference.
By Inside GNSS
Intelligent Material Solutions (IMS) is taking a new approach to helping the blind and visually impaired (BVI) navigate in cities and other environments, using a technology that dovetails on GPS to provide more precise geo-location.
By Renee Knight
Through a collaborative agreement, Satelles will provide its Satellite Time and Location (STL) PNT service to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), expanding precision timing distribution options for critical infrastructure.
By Renee Knight
Orolia is providing Atomic Reference Time (ART) Cards in a collaborative partnership with Meta.
By Inside GNSS
Honeywell recently introduced three new navigation systems: the HGuide o360 inertial/global navigation system (INS/GNSS) navigator, the HGuide n500 inertial navigator and the HGuide g080 GNSS receiver.
By Inside GNSS
The recently released GNS3 GNSS receiver from Juniper Systems is a scalable platform that allows users to collect real-time GNSS data with sub-meter, sub-foot and decimeter accuracy options. Users can purchase a receiver that meets current accuracy needs, with the option to increase the level of accuracy through subscriptions when needed.
By Inside GNSS
The CDTI has awarded GMV a new contract as part of the collision avoidance service provided by the Spanish (S3TOC) and French (COO) operations centers within the EU SST system.
By Inside GNSS
Semtech’s LoRa Edge device-to-cloud geolocation platform now features multi-band capabilities, with LoRa Edge LR1120 allowing for direct satellite-connected Internet of Things (IoT) applications for supply chain management and logistics.
By Inside GNSS
The housed AsteRx-U3 Marine and the OEM board AsteRx-m3 Fg are the two new GNSS receivers for dredging, marine construction and offshore applications
By Inside GNSS BizStation, a Japanes database solutions company, along with Switzerland’s u-blox, have announced a highly accurate, compact and low-cost positioning solution for markets in East Asia and Oceania.
By Peter Gutierrez
The P300 Series from ComNav Technology combines a GNSS receiver with a tablet. Based on the K8 platform, the solution can be used in various applications, including precision agriculture, autonomous vehicles and machine control.
By Inside GNSS
Tallysman recently added eXtended Filtering (XF) to its line of VeroStar® housed and embedded precision GNSS antennas. The XF feature is designed to mitigate interference from all near-band signals.
By Inside GNSS
With the company’s latest 5G data card release, Telit is offering OEMs and systems integrators a solution that supports new latency-sensitive applications.
By Inside GNSS
Precise motion data from silicon IMUs advises vessel maneuvering
Devices also assist measurement of ocean surface
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation (ION) announced the recipients of the 2022 Fellow membership during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) and Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications (PTTI) meeting held January 25- 27, 2022 at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California.
By Inside GNSS
FocalPoint Positioning, founded in 2015, is, as they say, very happening. Its Supercorrelation is a chipset-level software product for mobiles, wearables and vehicles that is changing the positioning game in urban environments. Interesting and energetic, FocalPoint founder Ramsey Faragher came out of the defense industry and has a risen rapidly in the GNSS firmament.
By Peter Gutierrez
As CEO Jean-Yves Courtois puts it, Orolia is focused on solving the hard problems. To do that, the France-based company, a global provider of resilient positioning, navigation and timing (RPNT) solutions, has become a technology integrator.
By Inside GNSS
Industry veteran Simon Baksh is joining JAVAD GNSS as Head of Product Development. Baksh trained as a chartered surveyor and first applied his land and hydrographic survey expertise to optimize oil exploration working for Schlumberger internationally.
By Inside GNSS
Zak Kassas, associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at the University of California-Irvine, has receuved the Young Investigator Research Program (YIP) award from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR). Kassas was one of 36 scientists and engineers from 30 institutions in the country to earn the recognition for 2022.
By Inside GNSS
Javier Benedicto, for nearly 14 years the Head of the Galileo Programme Department within the Directorate of Navigation at the European Space Agency (ESA), has been appointed Director of Navigation at the agency.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division presented Dr. Mark Psiaki with its Johannes Kepler Award during the Institute of Navigation (ION) GNSS+ 2021 Conference. In addition to many other achievements, Psiaki co-authored the Inside GNSS cover story, “TRANSIT on Steroids: Doppler-Based GNSS Meets Large LEO Constellations”
By Inside GNSS
The European satellite service provider (ESSP) placed Charlotte Neyret, former European Development Director for Thales Alenia Space, at its helm as chief executive officer.ESSP manages EGNOS, the European GNSS satellite-based augmentation system.
By Inside GNSS
Focal Point Positioning, a deep tech start-up whose technologies address the core problem of GNSS inaccuracies due to multipath and spoofing, hasannounced the hire of GPS industry veteran Jim LaMance as Chief Experience Officer
By Inside GNSS
Focal Point Positioning, a UK-based deep tech start-up whose patented technology improves the performance of GPS chips in smartphones, wearables and vehicles, announced the hiring of GPS industry veteran Scott Pomerantz as its new CEO.
By Inside GNSS
AIRMAR®Technology Corporation, a world leader in ultrasonic transducers and Chirp technology, is pleased to welcome Diana Sufariu to the company as Director of Engineering.
By Inside GNSS The CDTI has awarded GMV a new contract as part of the collision avoidance service provided by the Spanish (S3TOC) and French (COO) operations centers within the EU SST system.
By Inside GNSS
Safran Electronics & Defense is taking a major step forward in its inertial navigation strategy by grouping two subsidiaries, Safran Colibrys (Switzerland) and the recently acquired Sensonor (Norway,) under a single banner, Safran Sensing Technologies.
By Inside GNSS
SWARCO, a leading traffic technology specialist, has entered into a strategic partnership with TomTom. Under the new agreement, high-quality traffic data from TomTom will become available to public entities using SWARCO’s urban mobility management suite MyCity.
By Peter Gutierrez
S.E.A. Datentechnik GmbH, a leading developer and system integrator for advanced RF and V2X test and measurement systems, serving chipset vendors, automotive suppliers, and OEMs, today announced a partnership with M3 Systems as a technology partner for advanced GNSS emulation technology. The new partnership ensures the provision of high quality GNSS tools for current and future automotive V2X and ADAS applications.
By Inside GNSS Through a collaborative agreement, Satelles will provide its Satellite Time and Location (STL) PNT service to the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), expanding precision timing distribution options for critical infrastructure.
By Renee Knight
Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI) offers a full spectrum of RF expertise and devices. At IMS2022, ADI will showcase its latest RF, microwave, and millimeter wave technologies for instrumentation and aerospace & defense applications.
By Inside GNSS
With the integration of the Trimble RTX GNSS correction services platform with Snapdragon® 8 Gen 1 and Snapdragon 888 Mobile Platforms from Qualcomm Technologies, Android phone users now have access to more precise positioning for navigation, lane-level guidance and ridesharing pick-up destinations.
By Inside GNSS
US Department of Transportation, Cambridge, MA
This position is one of the Technical Centers at Volpe whose function is to undertake transportation analysis, research and system development that contributes to a compelling vision of the 21st Century transportation enterprise and supports decision making in the development, management, operation, and financing or an integrated multimodal national transportation system that meets 21st Century mobility needs for goods and people.
By Inside GNSS
Two recent government reports have labelled Satelles’ Satellite Time and Location (STL) as a reliable source of resilient timing for critical infrastructure.
By Inside GNSS
With the help of Galileo signals, first responders in the European Union (EU) will have more accurate location information when calls come into the 112-emergency number, leading to faster response times and ultimately saving lives.
By Inside GNSS
Hemisphere GNSS’s new Vega 34 OEM heading and positioning board enables users to upgrade to multi-frequency GNSS without changing pinouts. Integrators who use predecessor Hemisphere 34-pin products such as Crescent Vector H220 and Phantom 34 OEM boards can now transition to improved positioning performance and satellite tracking capabilities of the Vega series.
By Inside GNSS 
The startup plans to launch its first demonstration mission on SpaceX’s Transporter 5 in May, with the goal of displaying high-quality commercial PNT LEO signals from a payload suitable for small satellite deployment.
By Inside GNSS Speakers at the 14th European Space Conference in Brussels discussed the need to defend EU assets against unfriendly attacks. Recent events in Eastern Europe would seem to lend force to such concerns, as the European Union makes headway toward the intersection of civil infrastructure and security and defense.
By Peter Gutierrez Will the network, which some are still fighting, be ready for a September rollout, and if so, what are the implications for GPS and the people who rely on it?
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
