Airservices Australia graphic Airservices Australia and Inmarsat announced yesterday (March 1, 2015) that they would lead trials of a GNSS-aided aircraft tracking system…

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Graph showing the difference between UT1 and UTC. Vertical segments correspond to leap seconds. Source: Wikimedia Commons Differences between BeiDou and GPS and…

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New rules recently adopted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to help emergency responders better locate wireless 911 callers highlight the role of…

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July is likely to be a key month for the GPS program’s new ground control segment as development stresses, a government watchdog report,…

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Ray Clore, U.S. State Department. Peter Gutierrez photo Almost half of the sessions at the International Navigation Conference (INC) 2015 held this week…

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U.S. lawmakers, dissatisfied with the pace of international efforts to prevent losses like that of an Malaysia Airlines plane last year, may push…

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A range of new technologies for indoor positioning and navigation were unveiled at the International Navigation Conference (INC) 2015 held this week (February…

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The latest high-profile incident involving a drone — the January 26 discovery of a crashed quadcopter on the White House lawn — highlights…

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Apparently working overtime during the President’s Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) today  (February 15, 2015) proposed a…

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Berchtesgaden, Germany The Galileo Test and Development Environment (GATE), located near Berchtesgaden in southern Bavaria, Germany, has been recertified for operation, extending the…

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The 2nd and 19th Space Operations Squadrons (SOPS), who operate the GPS satellite constellation from Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, are hosting GPS…

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A Federal Register notice published today (February 13, 2015) announced a third U.S. Department of Transportation workshop on March 12 to continue discussions…

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A U.S. District Court has dismissed most of two lawsuits brought in 2013 against GNSS manufacturers stemming from the effort by LightSquared Inc….

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Two more Galileo full operational capability (FOC) satellites have reached French Guiana in preparation for a late-March launch from the European spaceport there….

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Lockheed Martin and Dominion Resources, Inc. have co-developed a new “smart grid” technology called VirtuGrid, which will enable remote detection of power outages…

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