Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Collins Aerospace received a program-of-record contract to mature and integrate a positioning, navigation and timing system for the U.S. Army’s for the Army’s increasingly sophisticated manned ground vehicles. The Mounted Assured Position Navigation and Timing System (MAPS) will maintain the integrity of positioning and timing during operations in GPS-contested environments.
By Inside GNSS
As a significant number of people and robotics venture into space, infrastructures providing critical services such as GNSS must be considered on a large extra-terrestrial scale to support these explorations and settlements.
By Inside GNSS
Laboratory tests explore how commercially available receivers respond to meaconing and spoofing, with the goal of developing useful test methodologies and metrics to assess receiver robustness and resilience to real-world spoofing threats.
The fifth GPS III satellite rising in 2021 will ride aboard a previously used Falcon 9 first-stage booster, in a first for a National Security Space Launch mission. Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has contracted with the U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center Launch Enterprise to reuse the booster rockets.
By Inside GNSS
Orolia Defense & Security has received security approval from SMC Production Corps (Space and Missile Command’s Production Corps, located at Los Angeles Air Force Base in El Segundo, California) for its BroadSim MNSA (Modernized Navstar Security Algorithm), a software-defined GNSS simulator.
By Inside GNSS
There are interesting tradeoffs to consider in placing navigation satellites at various orbital heights, including signal power, availability, cost, orbit prediction, receiver computational load and manufacturer motivation.
By Inside GNSS
Innovative European developers use emerging GNSS-based Internet of Things technologies to create more power-efficient solutions for a range of logistics, maintenance and other applications.
By Peter Gutierrez
The Russian Defense Ministry has publicized tests of its new Tornado-S precision missile, which takes GLONASS data input for its target and flies in squads capable of taking out dispersed enemy formations. The missile comes in a multiple launch rocket system (MLRS) that can fire up to 12 missiles simultaneously in a coordinated attack.
By Inside GNSS
Bynav (Hunan Bynav Technology Co., Ltd.), a supplier of GNSS high-precision receivers in China’s vehicle testing market, has released two commercial products: the C1 GNSS real-time kinematic (RTK) OEM receiver and A1 industrial-grade IMU-enhanced GNSS OEM receiver, based on its proprietary GNSS baseband ASIC Alita and RFIC Ripley.
By Inside GNSS
A favorable GAO ruling discounted Congressional allegations that the FCC skipped a key legal step before granting Ligado’s controversial application. This positions the broadband company closer to its target and to ongoing interference with GPS signals.
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
The Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA) Europe held a virtual workshop in early September on the topic of “Cybersecurity in and for Space Operations.” Speakers told attendees of the threats posed to vital space systems, including Galileo and GPS, by foreign hackers, cyber warfare and online espionage, and of initiatives to harden satellite capabilities against cyber attacks.
By Inside GNSS
A satellite launching in November will use GNSS – Radio Occultation (GNSS-RO) to collect highly accurate global temperature and humidity information as an aid to more accurate and more advanced weather forecasting. Developed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), the spacecraft’s GNSS-RO instrument tracks GNSS satellite signals to measure the physical properties of Earth’s atmosphere.
By Inside GNSS
Tallysman Wireless Inc., a manufacturer of precision GNSS antennas and related components, has been acquired by Calian Group Ltd, a publicly owned Canadian company. Both companies are based in Ottawa, Canada.
By Inside GNSS
