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September 6, 2024
FCC Wants Public Input on NextNav Petition for New Frequency Rules

With the 6 August 2024 release of Public Notice DA 24-776, the FCC’s Wireless Telecommunications Bureau (WTB) and Office of Engineering and Technology…

By Peter Gutierrez


September 3, 2024
Machine Learning Powers EGNOS Performance Prediction

Researchers funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) NAVISP program have developed a new EGNOS performance prediction model using state-of-the-art machine-learning (ML) techniques.

By Peter Gutierrez


August 29, 2024
SAMVA eVTOL Flights at EGNOS-enabled Vertiport 

The EU-funded SAMVA project recently completed a series of successful electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft flights at the first EGNOS-enabled ‘vertiport’,…

By Peter Gutierrez


August 28, 2024
Human Engineering: Making the Magic Happen

Steve Woolven’s early experience running his family’s resort coupled with his ambitious academic pursuits helped lay the groundwork for a successful career in…

By Peter Gutierrez


August 27, 2024
Geospatial Database OpenStreetMap Comes of Age

OpenStreetMap (OSM), the free geographic database, celebrated its 20th anniversary in August 2024. Updated and maintained by a community of volunteers, via open collaboration, OSM…

By Peter Gutierrez


August 19, 2024
Jan De Nul Adds SBG Navsight Apogee to its Bathometric Survey USV

After an in-depth assessment and test campaign, Jan De Nul, the offshore energy, dredging and construction firm, has selected Navsight-Apogee by SBG Systems…

By Peter Gutierrez


August 13, 2024
EUSPA Reaches Space Asset Protection Milestone

The European Agency for the Space Program (EUSPA) recently marked the one year anniversary of its take-over of EU Space Surveillance and Tracking…

By Peter Gutierrez


August 6, 2024
ESA Addresses Radio-Navigation Commemoration

On 30 July 2024, European navigators commemorated the 90th anniversary of Guglielmo Marconi’s first demonstration of microwave-guided navigation. In the Bay of Silence,…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 30, 2024
GMV Demonstrates Cloud Cooperative Navigation

The ICON project (‘Innovative cloud cooperative navigation’), led by GMV, has developed a concept demonstrator, enabled by high-speed, low-latency wireless communication networks and…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 26, 2024
Focal Point Tests Real-Time S-GNSS Receiver

One of the biggest challenges for satellite based positioning is mitigating the effects of multipath interference and non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals, particularly in urban…

By Peter Gutierrez


July 12, 2024
ESA White Paper Takes PNT Vision to 2035

The European Space Agency’s Navigation Innovation and Support Program Advisory Committee (NAVAC) has released a new white paper outlining its vision for the…

By Peter Gutierrez


June 27, 2024
Improved Height Determination with GNSS CORS and InSAR Technologies

Researchers in Hungary have developed a new method for geodetic height determination, exploiting the synergies of multi-constellation GNSS and interferometric synthetic aperture radar…

By Peter Gutierrez


June 24, 2024
New NAVISP INSPIRe Project Targets Integrity

The European Space Agency’s NAVISP program continues to churn out on-point, PNT-related research at a time of increasing interest in the resilience, or…

By Peter Gutierrez


June 10, 2024
Using LEO Signals of Opportunity for PNT

A new paper (June 2024) published in Navigation, the Journal of the Institute of Navigation, by Arial Baron, Pini Gurfil and Hector Rotstein of Technion-Israel…

By Peter Gutierrez


June 7, 2024
ESA-funded ADVENT Project Demonstrates VDES-based PNT

In the maritime sector, work is ongoing towards the identification and development of alternative PNT (positioning, navigation and timing) solutions, that is, solutions…

By Peter Gutierrez


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