Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Rx Networks GNSS assistance service Location.io has added StarCourse, an evolution in extended GNSS satellite ephemeris services.
By Inside GNSS
A low-cost, commercial off-the-shelf (COTS)-based, Precise Point Positioning (PPP), multi-constellation, multi-frequency GNSS receiver for micro and small satellites allows ≤10 cm positioning accuracy on a low-Earth orbit.
By Inside GNSS
Hexagon has acquired Immersal Oy, a provider of spatial mapping and visual positioning solutions used to produce augmented reality (AR) applications.
By Inside GNSS
Septentrio has partnered with XenomatiX, a provider of true-solid-state-LiDAR technology for autonomous applications and road management solutions, to enable high-accuracy GNSS-LiDAR solutions for road surveying and road management.
By Inside GNSS
NASA’s Deep Space Atomic Clock is working toward giving far-flung space explorers more autonomy when navigating. In a new paper published in the journal Nature, the mission reports progress in their work to improve the ability of space-based atomic clocks to measure time consistently over long periods.
By Inside GNSS
Rx Networks announced TruePoint.io Global PPP correction service, providing the accuracy, providing global precise point positioning (PPP) corrections for every major GNSS constellation.
By Inside GNSS
BAE Systems, Inc. received the first contract from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Space Production Corps to deliver M-Code Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) to Germany.
By Inside GNSS
Maxtena, Inc. introduced a small, patented GNSS antenna for high precision and autonomous multi-frequency applications. The M9HCT-A-SMA antenna is a high accuracy, multi-frequency active helix GNSS antenna + L-band corrections services.
By Inside GNSS
New frontiers have opened up for line-of-sight communication, targeting, autonomous navigation, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) and more, with the astonishing advances in inertial technology.
By Inside GNSS
The French company Geoflex demonstrated GNSS corrections-driven centimetric positioning in Brazzaville, Republic of Congo on July 8, at the national Stadium Alphonse Massamba-Debat. The demo employed a dual-frequency GNSS chipset receiving GPS and Galileo signals and the Geoflex corrections service via the Nigerian NIGCOMSAT-1R satellite on L Band
By Inside GNSS
The Air Force Strategic Development Planning & Experimentation Office demonstrated fused PNT technologies within an AgilePod during six successful Phase I sorties on an airborne testbed in Centennial, Colorado in April.
By Inside GNSS
Testing of the first pair of Galileo Batch 3 satellites at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) was completed in April, and they are now in storage on site. Three more new Galileo satellites have since arrived from OHB in Germany
By Inside GNSS
Iridium Communications Inc. received a research and development contract worth up to $30 million from the United States Army to develop a payload to be hosted on small satellites that supports navigation systems, guidance and control for GPS and GPS-denied precision systems.
By Alan Cameron
