Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Vectron International will provide Furuno’s GNSS receivers and timing modules in North America.Vectron International today (April 6) announced that the company has entered into an agreement with Furuno to provide Furuno’s GNSS receivers and timing modules in North America.
By Inside GNSS
Orolia recently announced successful synchronization in multiple indoor locations. Photo source: Oriola.Rochester, New York-based Orolia recently announced (March 22) that in several indoor environments in the field, it has successfully synchronized a Spectracom SecureSync high precision time server with the new Iridium Satelles Satellite Time & Location (STL) time synchronization signal powered by Iridium satellites.
By Inside GNSS
Passive hydrogen maser atomic clock of the type flown on Galileo, accurate to one second in three million years. ESA photo.Speakers at last month’s 9th Annual Conference on European Space Policy in Brussels wasted no time in addressing the somewhat worrying failure of a number of Galileo onboard clocks, as revealed by European Space Agency Director General Johan-Dietrich Woerner at a press briefing earlier in January in Paris. He made clear at the time that the clock failures, while indeed troubling, had had no effect on the operational integrity of the Galileo system.
By Inside GNSS
Tower Hall at San Jose State University. Photo source: Wikimedia Commons.The 26th annual Workshop on Synchronization and Timing Systems (WSTS), sponsored by The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and ATIS, will take place April 3-6 at the DoubleTree in Jan Jose, California.
By Inside GNSS
RTM3205 Precision Timing Module. Photo source: EndRun Technologies. Santa Rosa, California-based EndRun Technologies, a provider of precision time and frequency solutions, announced last week at the International Technical Meeting-Precision Time/Time Interval (ITM-PTTI) meeting, the release of the RTM3205 Precision Timing Module for portable time and frequency applications. The second generation RTM3205 is optimized for size, weight, and power (SWaP), but can exceed the stability of a standard cesium atomic frequency reference, according to the company.
By Inside GNSS
Another informative joint Institute of Navigation (ION) International Technical Meeting and Precise Time/Time Interval Meeting is in the books and attendees of the event this week in Monterey, California had the opportunity to learn and share ideas on a wide array of topics and technologies.
By Inside GNSS
Securities regulators recently approved a plan to improve the tracking of financial trades by creating a single, comprehensive database that, among other things, incorporates tightened clock synchronization standards.
By Inside GNSS
Federal officials are finally moving on a year-old, two-phase plan to establish a long delayed backup for the GPS system.
By Inside GNSS
Aerial view of the old city, Besançon, FranceThe 2017 joint conference of the IEEE International Frequency Control Symposium and European Frequency and Time Forum will take place in Besançon, France at the Micropolis Convention Center on July 9-13.
The abstracts for this biennial event are due by March 13, 2017 (extended from March 3).
The topics are:
Group 1: Materials, Resonators & Resonator Circuits
Group 2: Oscillators, Synthesizers, Noise, & Circuit Techniques
Group 3: Microwave Frequency Standards & Applications
Group 4: Sensors & Transducers
Redondo Beach, CaliforniaThe 18th meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board will take place at the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina in Redondo Beach, California, U.S.A. on December 7-8, 2016.
By Inside GNSS
Because GPS and other GNSS are critical to the nation’s infrastructure, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is testing an augmentation system and developing new requirements to protect it, a DHS official told the U.S. Department of Transportations’s Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting this week in Portland, Oregon.
Gaylord National Resort and Convention CenterThe National Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board is comprised of experts from outside government that are tasked with developing recommendations for the PNT EXCOM to consider in making GPS services more effective and accessible to users in all domains and sectors. Attendance is open to the public.
By Inside GNSS
