Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The European Space Agency (ESA) picked Thales Alenia Space to develop the Advanced Orbit Determination and Time Synchronisation (ODTS) Algorithms Test Platform (A-OATP). The new contract will support the implementation and experimentation of the navigation algorithms that will be used for Galileo Second Generation.
By Inside GNSS
IFEN GmbH announced that its NCS NOVA GNSS Simulator fully supports the simulation of Galileo Open-Service (OS) signal improvements based on the new Galileo OS SIS ICD V2.0. This is an important capability because the improved signals are not due to be broadcast until 2023, but can be incorporated now in GNSS receiver manufacturer testing regimes.
By Inside GNSS
The first powered, controlled flight on another planet, now re-scheduled for no earlier than April 14, will employ inertial technology to navigate Ingenuity.
By Inside GNSS
ColdQuanta received two development contracts from U.S. Government agencies worth $2.55M in total, based on the company’s Quantum Core technology that uses atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero, and lasers to manipulate and control the atoms with extreme precision. According to the Boulder, Colorado-based company, cold atom quantum technology can be used for secure global navigation, quantum timekeeping, and communications.
By Inside GNSS
A new tome — make that two new tomes — join the bookshelf of essential and authoritative references for GNSS users, while widening the umbrella a good deal to cover all PNT technologies, their sensors and their integrations. Edited by four leading lights of the community and assistant-edited by two more, its list of authors rounds up another 131 of the “usual suspects,” the names that are seen repeatedly in the presentations at technical conference and on their organizing boards. In every one of 64 subject matters, the author(s) is/are recognized experts, in many cases the recognized expert, on the material.
By Alan Cameron
At least three commercial organizations have initiated testing of the Galileo Open Service Navigation Message Authentication (OSNMA) service, concurrently with the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) themselves.
By Inside GNSS
Microchip Technology Inc. has integrated its BlueSky technology GPS signal-anomaly detection software into the SyncServer S600 Series network time server and instruments, to protect network timing applications in banking, stock trading, electric utilities, aerospace and defense and other applications.
By Inside GNSS
GPS repeaters from infiniDome Ltd. will be deployed by Focus Telecom at more than 30 railway stations across Israel, providing accurate, location-based service indoors at all locations for a new Israel Railways ticketing app.
By Inside GNSS
A consortium of European and Latin American organizations will establish and operate new Galileo Information Centre (GIC) for Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean.
By Inside GNSS
Chinese government television is carrying live coverage of GNSS-guided cotton-seed drilling in the fields of the Xianjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, a vast area of deserts and mountains in northwest China.
By Inside GNSS
Trimble introduced its first dual-frequency — GPS L1 and L5 — embedded timing module providing next-generation wireless networks with 5-nanosecond accuracy.
By Inside GNSS
An experimental European Space Agency (ESA) moon-bound payload will carry an advanced GNSS receiver to perform what may be the first satnav positioning fix in lunar orbit.
By Inside GNSS
The first M-code enabled receiver cards were delivered to a U.S. ally in February 2021. Canada took possession of an unspecified number of Military Code-capable GPS receiver cards for the purposes of laboratory and field testing.
By Inside GNSS
