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ESA Trainees Develop Smartphone Apps to View Galileo Satellites

The European Space Agency (ESA) recently ran an internal competition for its trainees to develop an app capable of making positioning fixes using only Galileo satellites. ESA challenged these young graduate and national trainees to develop smartphone apps to perform satellite navigation fixes solely with the use of Galileo satellites. Three teams developed apps in their spare time, presenting their results to a jury of experts from ESA, the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA) and Google.

By Inside GNSS

August 3, 2018

Toughening and Augmenting the Installed GPS Base – Solutions are Ready, Are Users?

Solutions to toughen receivers (make them more resistant to jamming and spoofing), and to augment GPS signals with those from other sources, will require either replacement or modification of existing equipment.

By Inside GNSS

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July 30, 2018

Deadline Near: DHS Program to Assess GPS Jamming, Spoofing Resilience

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) will conduct demonstrations of GPS receivers this fall to support the buying plans of first responders, the Coast Guard and other agencies within DHS. The tests aim to clarify how well the receivers stand up to jamming and spoofing while being used on small, unmanned aircraft systems (sUAS or drones) for maritime missions.

By Dee Ann Divis

July 27, 2018

Brexit and Galileo – Plenty of Rumblings, but Where’s the Beef?

The UK seems well and truly on the path to leaving the European Union. The implications for the Galileo program are still unclear, and won’t be known until Brexit negotiations are completed, at the earliest.

By Peter Gutierrez

July 26, 2018

Ariane 5 Launch Extends Galileo’s Global Reach

With Wednesday’s successful Ariane 5 launch of four more Galileo satellites, the Galileo constellation grew to 26 satellites, extending the global coverage of the constellation.

By Stan Goff

July 17, 2018

GPS Budget On Track for Near-Full Funding

Senate Seeks Report on OCX Alternative

Both the Senate Appropriations Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee have now passed their spending bills, largely agreeing with the White House and their House counterparts on funding levels for the GPS program with the exceptions of nearly tripling the House cut to the GPS IIIF program and taking a shot across the bow of the new GPS ground system.

By Dee Ann Divis

July 12, 2018

China Launches Another BeiDou Navigation Satellite

China sent a new BeiDou navigation satellite into orbit on a Long March-3A rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center, in the southwestern Sichuan Province, at 4:58 a.m., Tuesday, July 10.

The satellite is the 32nd of the BeiDou navigation system, and one of the BeiDou-2 family, which is the second generation of the system. The state-run Xinhua press agency confirmed the launch within two hours after liftoff.

By Inside GNSS

July 10, 2018

Curtiss-Wright Highlights A-PNT Solutions for Ground Vehicles in GPS/GNSS-Denied Environments at JNC

Curtiss-Wright’s Defense Solutions division announced that it will highlight its family of commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS)-based modules and LRU solutions designed for system integrators seeking to rapidly and cost-effectively deploy Assured Position, Navigation and Timing (A-PNT) services at the 2018 Joint Navigation Conference, July 9-11 (Booth #109), the largest U.S. military Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) conference of the year with joint service and government participation.

By Inside GNSS

June 27, 2018

New GPSIA Executive Director Excited About the Future of GPS

When talking to J. David Grossman, the new executive director of the GPS Innovation Alliance (GPSIA), one word comes up quite often: excited.

By Stan Goff

June 25, 2018

GSA’s Cospas-Sarsat Meeting Addresses Progress of Search and Rescue Systems

The Cospas-Sarsat MEOSAR (Medium-Altitude Earth Orbit Search and Rescue) system has been in the news quite a bit of late, and with good reason. As the technology has evolved, so too has the ability to improve search and rescue operations which save lives.

The cover story for the current issue of Inside GNSS is dedicated to the Cospas-Sarsat MEOSAR system and its role as a solution to support the ICAO GADSS Autonomous Distress Tracking recommendation.

By Inside GNSS

June 21, 2018

FAA Now Has Improved GPS Coverage Across U.S. as GEO 5 joins WAAS

The Federal Aviation Administration’s Geosynchronous Earth Orbiting 5 Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) navigation payload, developed by Raytheon’s Intelligence, Information and Services business, is now operational and fully integrated into the WAAS network. The GEO 5 payload joins two others already on orbit in correcting GPS satellite signal ionospheric disturbances, timing issues, and minor orbit adjustments, giving users increased coverage, improved accuracy, and better reliability.

By Inside GNSS

June 20, 2018

GPS IIIF: The Air Force Decides to Stick With Lockheed

Over at least half a dozen years the GPS III Follow On program has taken a number of dramatic turns only to wind up, in true soap opera fashion, with the same leading characters headed to the altar.

At the end of the latest episode, the field of suitors for the multi-billion-dollar GPS IIIF contract narrowed suddenly in April when two of the three corporate hopefuls abruptly left the field.

By Dee Ann Divis

Russia Launches Soyuz-2.1b Carrier Rocket with GLONASS-M Navigation Satellite on June 17

Russia launched a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space center on Sunday to orbit a GLONASS-M satellite, the Russian Defense Ministry said in a press release this week.

By Inside GNSS

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ESA Trainees Develop Smartphone Apps to View Galileo Satellites

Toughening and Augmenting the Installed GPS Base – Solutions are Ready, Are Users?

Deadline Near: DHS Program to Assess GPS Jamming, Spoofing Resilience

Brexit and Galileo – Plenty of Rumblings, but Where’s the Beef?

Ariane 5 Launch Extends Galileo’s Global Reach

GPS Budget On Track for Near-Full Funding

China Launches Another BeiDou Navigation Satellite

Curtiss-Wright Highlights A-PNT Solutions for Ground Vehicles in GPS/GNSS-Denied Environments at JNC

New GPSIA Executive Director Excited About the Future of GPS

GSA’s Cospas-Sarsat Meeting Addresses Progress of Search and Rescue Systems

FAA Now Has Improved GPS Coverage Across U.S. as GEO 5 joins WAAS

GPS IIIF: The Air Force Decides to Stick With Lockheed

Russia Launches Soyuz-2.1b Carrier Rocket with GLONASS-M Navigation Satellite on June 17