Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Peter Gutierrez, Inside GNSS’s European correspondent, is a senior reporter and editor based in Brussels, Belgium, who has written about Europe’s GNSS programs for many years. Read More
He received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Texas at Austin and a M.S. degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
After years of development and large-scale testing, Galileo’s Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) is no longer an experimental signal but a fully…
By Peter Gutierrez
Satellite-based augmentation systems (SBAS) such as EGNOS, WAAS and MSAS have been quietly underpinning safety-critical navigation for decades, delivering correction and integrity data…
By Peter Gutierrez
The European Space Agency (ESA)’s pioneering Low Earth Orbit Positioning, Navigation and Timing (LEO-PNT) demonstration mission, officially known as ‘Celeste’, has slipped past…
By Peter Gutierrez
On 13 January 2026, Europe’s Copernicus Earth-observation program carried out a planned reconfiguration of the GNSS receiver aboard the Sentinel-3B satellite, a low-profile…
By Peter Gutierrez
Over the past year, Brussels-based Agilica BV has completed major milestones in the ‘Safe autonomous integrated landing system for ships’ (SAILS) initiative.
By Peter Gutierrez
Greece has taken a significant step into operational space capabilities with the launch of MICE-1 (Maritime Identification and Communication System-1).
By Peter Gutierrez
In a corner the globe often overlooked by the GNSS community, the Southern Positioning Augmentation Network (SouthPAN) is steadily advancing toward full operational…
By Peter Gutierrez
The Latvian Positioning System (LatPos) is highlighting how strategic monitoring, operational transparency, and proactive interference management can sustain high-precision GNSS services amid increasing…
By Peter Gutierrez
With funding from the European Space Agency (ESA), Space for Life (S4L), formerly Safe Structures Company (SSC), has developed the PONTI Box, a compact, automotive-grade sensor unit that…
By Peter Gutierrez
European efforts to strengthen positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) are increasingly focusing on timing, the least celebrated yet foundational element of the triad.
By Peter Gutierrez
A new commercial positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) collaboration, anchored by TrustPoint’s low Earth orbit (LEO) C-band navigation service, is taking shape with…
By Peter Gutierrez
Europe’s role in lunar exploration has crystallized around a clear strategic theme: enabling reliable positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) beyond Earth, in close…
By Peter Gutierrez
Europe has found an intriguing new player in the contest to strengthen resilience in positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT). iNGage is a Franco-Italian…
By Peter Gutierrez
Since we last reported on the Safran-Xona/TrustPoint integrations, the low-Earth-orbit PNT narrative has advanced decisively, moving from laboratory interoperability tests to tangible in-orbit…
By Peter Gutierrez
Under a European Union Aviation Safety Association (EASA)-implemented project, European and South American partners are conducting targeted technical exchanges, operational assessments, and regulatory…
By Peter Gutierrez
