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November 26, 2020

Rail Antennas Updated for Multi-Constellation GNSS

Huber+Suhner, a global supplier of optical and electricity connectivity solutions, updated its range of SENCITY Rail antennas to receive signals from all four GNSS: BeiDou, Galileo, GPS and GLONASS.

As passenger numbers rise and more rail vehicles share the same tracks, GNSS receiving modules that simultaneously support satellite systems enable greater precision and higher compatibility with on-board receivers. All new SENCITY Rail antennas can now receive signals from all four satellite systems, allowing for greater accuracy for the operation of rail vehicles worldwide. This gives railway operators the opportunity to gain greater control of their rail infrastructure.

The SENCITY line of antennas are omni-directional railway roof-top antenna family for all types of trains. They are designed to meet the special requirements of railway applications including high current and high voltage protection.

“This latest update to our SENCITY Rail products enables higher location accuracy for railway operators, offering improved safety and better operational planning as railway lines become increasingly congested,” said Daniel Montagnese, Product Manager for Railway Antennas at the company. “This comes just a couple of months after the launch of the industry’s first embedded dual-band GNSS SENCITY Rail MIMO Antenna.”

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November 25, 2020

Swift Navigation’s Precise Positioning Technology Improves Accuracy of Single-Frequency GNSS Receivers

Swift Navigation announced that its precise positioning platform can improve the performance of existing single-frequency GNSS positioning, found on most production vehicles today, from the standard average of 3 meters to lane-level accuracy without changing existing hardware and antenna.

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November 24, 2020

StormBreaker Smart Weapon Approved for Fielding on F-15 Eagle

Raytheon Missiles & Defense announced that its StormBreaker smart weapon has been approved for use on the F-15E by the U.S. Air Force’s Air Combat Command. StormBreaker’s multimode seeker guides the weapon by imaging infrared, millimeter wave radar, and semi-active laser in addition to or with GPS and inertial navigation system guidance.

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November 23, 2020

Two Thousand Simultaneous Drones Position Themselves with GPS and GLONASS RTK

u-blox announced that it supplied the high-accuracy technology that made it possible to fly the world’s largest swarm of drones. The record-breaking simultaneous flight of 2198 miniature UAVs was launched into the night sky over Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September 3.

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November 23, 2020

GMV wins pole position in development and implementation of the Galileo Second Generation ground segment

The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G) ground segment; Galileo is Europe’s global, civil, satellite-based navigation and positioning system.

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November 20, 2020

Spirent Federal to Support NASA for GNSS Testing for Lunar Exploration

Spirent Federal Systems announced that it has been selected by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for testing GNSS for lunar exploration.

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November 19, 2020

RTK From the Sky Brings Instant GNSS Accuracy Worldwide; PPP Has Become RTK

The latest release from Hexagon promises precise point positioning (PPP) convergence in less than a minute for centimeter-level accuracy on land, air and marine applications around the world.

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ANavS Multi-Sensor RTK Positioning System

November 18, 2020

New Multi-Sensor RTK GNSS/INS/+ Positioning Module for Autonomy, Automation and More

ANavS showcased its Multi-Sensor RTK Positioning Module with its modular and flexibly configurable sensor fusion software at the recent International VDI Conference Autonomous Trucks virtual conference.

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November 18, 2020

Korea to Launch SBAS IN 2022

Korea will inaugurate its own satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS), the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS), sometime in 2022, with signals broadcast over the East Asian region from adjunct payloads aboard two geostationary communications satellites.

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November 17, 2020

Anti-Jam GPS for Army’s Gray Eagle UAV Awarded to Cobham

For its flagship Gray Eagle UAV, the U.S. Army with lead contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has selected an anti-jam GPS system from Cobham Aerospace Connectivity. The MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft system

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November 14, 2020

Webinar: Robust and Affordable Precision with Inertial and Multi-Band RTK

Explore with our experts the new markets enabled by affordable and robust RTK technology. High-performance real-time positioning in robotics, UAV survey, photogrammetry, intelligent vehicles and much more is now possible with entry-level inertial and GNSS products, as explained in the upcoming November 19 webinar,

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November 14, 2020

HERE Integrates what3words into In-car Navigation Feature

HERE, a navigation platform with its map data services found in 150 million vehicles worldwide, and what3words, an addressing system which has divided the world into a grid of millions of 3-meter squares, have partnered to offer precision in-car navigation.

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November 14, 2020

Ultra-low Power Multi-GNSS Platform Designed for Wearables, Livestock and Other Asset Tracking

A new integrated GNSS platform designed for ultra-low power high-performance positioning applications targets a wide range of applications requiring an extremely compact format and with very long battery life, such as sport watches or asset and livestock trackers.

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