Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Broadcom has its new third-generation low-power L1/L5 GNSS receiver chip, the BCM4778, available for sampling to early-access partners and customers. Optimized for mobile and wearable applications, the chip is 35% smaller and consumes 5 times less power than the previous generation.
By Inside GNSS
NextNav and Satelles, Inc. have partnered on an alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) testbed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Designed and managed by NextNav with a timing source from Satelles, the testbed creates scenarios and conditions to rigorously test the precision and resilience of alternative PNT solutions
By Inside GNSS
u-blox announced a new GNSS evaluation software, u-center 2, running on Microsoft Windows and offering anyone working with tenth-generation u-blox GNSS technology a highly intuitive interface to configure GNSS products, evaluate their performance, improve the quality of their software,
By Inside GNSS
An enhanced version of BeiDou short message service (SMS) was showcased at the First International Summit on BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) Applications held in Changsha, central China’s Hunan Province, September 16–17.
By Inside GNSS
Ligado Networks had an early-year win in the form of a Federal Communications Commission denial of the National Telecommunications and Information Administration Stay Petition involving Ligado’s license for a terrestrial service in the mobile satellite services L-band. The company continues to roll toward deployment of a nationwide 5G network. While filings trickle in from the private sector, the feds work quietly behind the scenes on Congressional due-outs. In short, wheels big and small keep churning down the river to 5G.
By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
To comply with Federal Communications Commission (FCC) E-911 regulations, Qualcomm Technologies has enhanced the capabilities of the Qualcomm Location Suite to provide improved horizontal and vertical positioning information.
By Inside GNSS
Focal Point Positioning, a UK-based deep tech start-up whose patented technology improves the performance of GPS chips in smartphones, wearables and vehicles, announced the hiring of GPS industry veteran Scott Pomerantz as its new CEO.
By Inside GNSS
NextNav announced that it has successfully demonstrated the timing precision and resilience of its terrestrial position, navigation, and timing (PNT) system, TerraPoiNT, in a recent evaluation by the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
By Inside GNSS
Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, a new contribution to modern timing infrastructure, linked to GNSS as the authoritative time source. They call their invention the Time Card
By Inside GNSS
UrsaNav and ADVA have conducted an enhanced long-range navigation (eLoran) field trial using UrsaNav’s eLoran receiver and ADVA’s Oscilloquartz grandmaster clock technology. The successful demo showed that eLoran offers a robust and reliable backup for GPS and other GNSS and could be used to provide an assured position, navigation, and timing (PNT) service.
By Inside GNSS
Swift Navigation of San Francisco and Tokyo-based KDDI Corporation, a telecommunications company have partnered to bring precise positioning to the Japanese market.
By Inside GNSS
Rx Networks GNSS assistance service Location.io has added StarCourse, an evolution in extended GNSS satellite ephemeris services.
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
