Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
u-blox announced that it supplied the high-accuracy technology that made it possible to fly the world’s largest swarm of drones. The record-breaking simultaneous flight of 2198 miniature UAVs was launched into the night sky over Saint Petersburg, Russia, on September 3.
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The technology multinational GMV is playing a key role in the Galileo Second Generation (shortened to G2G) ground segment; Galileo is Europe’s global, civil, satellite-based navigation and positioning system.
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Spirent Federal Systems announced that it has been selected by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for testing GNSS for lunar exploration.
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The latest release from Hexagon promises precise point positioning (PPP) convergence in less than a minute for centimeter-level accuracy on land, air and marine applications around the world.
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ANavS showcased its Multi-Sensor RTK Positioning Module with its modular and flexibly configurable sensor fusion software at the recent International VDI Conference Autonomous Trucks virtual conference.
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Korea will inaugurate its own satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS), the Korea Augmentation Satellite System (KASS), sometime in 2022, with signals broadcast over the East Asian region from adjunct payloads aboard two geostationary communications satellites.
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For its flagship Gray Eagle UAV, the U.S. Army with lead contractor General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has selected an anti-jam GPS system from Cobham Aerospace Connectivity. The MQ-1C ER Gray Eagle Extended Range (GE-ER) Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) platform is a medium-altitude, long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aircraft system
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Explore with our experts the new markets enabled by affordable and robust RTK technology. High-performance real-time positioning in robotics, UAV survey, photogrammetry, intelligent vehicles and much more is now possible with entry-level inertial and GNSS products, as explained in the upcoming November 19 webinar,
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HERE, a navigation platform with its map data services found in 150 million vehicles worldwide, and what3words, an addressing system which has divided the world into a grid of millions of 3-meter squares, have partnered to offer precision in-car navigation.
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A new integrated GNSS platform designed for ultra-low power high-performance positioning applications targets a wide range of applications requiring an extremely compact format and with very long battery life, such as sport watches or asset and livestock trackers.
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The U.S. Space and Missile Systems Center awarded the Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) Increment (Inc) 2 Miniature Serial Interface (MSI) with Next-Generation Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) to Rockwell Collins, Inc.; L3 Technologies; and Raytheon Technologies.
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Hexagon | NovAtel introduces GNSS Resilience and Integrity Technology (GRIT), a suite of firmware features enabling trusted situational awareness and interference mitigation tools across applications and environments.
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The U.S. Space Force, Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) and its mission partners successfully launched the Lockheed Martin-built fourth GPS III satellite at 6:24 p.m. Nov. 5 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The satellite was carried to orbit aboard a Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) Falcon 9 launch vehicle.
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