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Washington View: Big Wheels Keep On Turning - Rolling On The River To 5G
September 14, 2021

Washington View: Big Wheels Keep On Turning – Rolling On The River To 5G

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.

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By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
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Italy and Qascom to Land First GNSS Receiver on the Moon

A 2023 lander in the moon’s Mare Crisium will carry the first GNSS receiver to that planet’s surface: the Navigation Early Investigation on Lunar surface (NEIL) receiver with software-defined radio (SDR) technology. The receiver will spring from agreements between the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the Italian firm Qascom srl.

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Are Elliptical Galileo Satellites Usable for RTK?

Galileo satellites 5 and 6 (E18, E14) were declared unusable in February 2021 after reports indicating repeatable daily problems with RTK. This article explores the possible impact of deviant elliptical orbits on the performance of RTK and finds that there is no reason to expect any anomalies caused by high orbit eccentricity per se. Thus there is no reason to declare the satellites unhealthy.

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By Inside GNSS
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Real-Time Automated Aerial Refueling with Stereo Vision: Overcoming GNSS-Denied Environments In or Near Combat Areas

In-flight refueling requires sustained minimal separation between paired aircraft with little room for error. In or near combat zones, wide-area GPS-denial or spoofing means that an GPS-independent system must be available. Regardless of the selected sensor package, a common set of properties must be satisfied to facilitate mid-air docking: a high degree of accuracy, precision, and integrity.

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By Inside GNSS
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August 3, 2021

New Galileo G2 Payloads Hit the Testing Beds

Testing of the first Galileo Second Generation (G2) hardware has begun, with versions of the satellites’ navigation payloads and antennas undergoing evaluation to check whether they meet the ambitious performance levels set for the coming generation of Europe’s GNSS.

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By Inside GNSS
Washington View - PNT: Nothing to See?
July 28, 2021

Washington View – PNT: Nothing to See?

A Department of Homeland (DHS)-chartered May 2021 report concludes that PNT threat and resilience concerns are not as dire as some have made them out to be, and that funds for backup could be spent elsewhere. Why this runs counter to other recent government reports is not clear, nor is the fallout from this divergence of Congressionally mandated views. The Department of Transportation has distanced itself a bit from this report by the RAND Corporation—and even its issuer, the DHS, seems to have done so.

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By Dawn M.K. Zoldi (Colonel, USAF, Ret.)
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