Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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
Scientists at Draper Laboratory have patented a celestial navigation system called a sliced-lens star tracker, which in its early form can achieve 50-meter accuracy in GNSS-denied environments. Improvements are expected as the technology evolves. Vehicles of all kinds may be able to benefit when using this system for navigating by the stars.
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Arianespace recently announced it will launch a total of eight new Galileo satellites over the next few years.
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) selected Arianespace to launch four new Galileo satellites for Europe’s satellite navigation system, according to a news release. This comes after the European Space Agency’s (ESA) order to launch four satellites last October and will complete the deployment of first-generation Galileo satellites.
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By Renee Knight
When a wireless 911 call comes in from a multi-story building, it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly where the caller is—wasting valuable time. NextNav has developed a solution with z-axis capabilities, Pinnacle 911, that addresses this GPS shortcoming, and recently entered into an agreement with a top wireless carrier to leverage it for enhanced 911 (E911).
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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
TerraStar-C PRO is the first global correction service from Hexagon to incorporate innovative RTK From the Sky technology to achieve RTK-level accuracy in three minutes with 99.999% availability
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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.
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Russian space agency Roscosmos and the Chinese Satellite Navigation System Commission have agreed to a joint roadmap on cooperation for 2021-2025.
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The Air Force Research Laboratory’s complementary PNT AgilePod prototype aced its first high-dynamic flight tests in November 2021. It also achieved two other firsts: the first test of fully-remote interfacing and alt-PNT data transmission, and the first demonstration of overland/overwater transition performance.
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Boeing secured a 10-year, $329.3 million contract to help the U.S. Space Force engineer operational GPS Block IIF satellites.
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The latest version of the Galileo Open Service Definition Document (OS SDD), updated November 2021, describes upgrades enacted in the Galileo system since May 2019: improvements, current constellation status and updates in the ground infrastructure that increase its robustness. This is the last update foreseen before Galileo Open Service reaches Full Operational Capability (FOC).
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Mobile satellite communications company Inmarsat is working on a UK Space Agency-funded test project with the European Space Agency, alongside British partners Goonhilly Earth Station Limited and GMVNSL Limited, to deliver the first UK-generated GNSS signal.
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The RINEX Working Group of the International GNSS Service (IGS) has released the new Receiver Independent Exchange Format Version 4.00 (RINEX4), as of December 1, 2021.
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