Spirent Federal Systems, provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, has announced that its new M-Code solution, SimMNSA, has been granted Security Approval by the Global Positioning System Directorate. Spirent Federal is the first company to provide such as solution for simulating…
NovAtel has been awarded a contract from the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to design, produce and deliver 40 next-generation Ground Uplink Station (GUS) Signal Generators to support the FAA’s safety-of-life WAAS navigation service. The service provides safety-critical infrastructure for…
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is getting ready to host a ground station for Russia’s GLONASS. The ground station will help the Russian navigation system become more efficient, reports the Times of India. The ground station will be built in Bengaluru,…
The i50 GNSS receiver comes bundled with the CHC HCE320 Android controller and CHC LandStar 7 field data collection software. (Photo: CHC Navigation) CHC Navigation has unveiled its i50 GNSS receiver, an all-in-one GNSS RTK solution. The GNSS receiver comes…
After several delays, the first GPS III satellite has successfully deployed from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 8:51 a.m. EST on Dec. 23. The satellite, built by Lockheed…
Septentrio has teamed up with Point One Navigation, a provider of precise location as a service, for autonomous vehicle demonstrations during the 2019 International Consumer Electronics Show, which will take place Jan. 8-11 in Las Vegas. During the conference, invitees…
Hemisphere GNSS’ Miles Ware discusses the company’s line of RTK positioning products and GNSS technology at Intergeo 2018, which took place Oct. 16-18 in Frankfurt, Germany. The solutions are suitable for the marine, machine control and land survey markets. GPS…
The scheduled launch of the first GPS III satellite on December 18 was scrubbed, reportedly due to first stage liquid oxygen thermal limit constraints aboard the SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 launch vehicle’s first stage reaching safety limits. A second…
Where have all the SBAS gone? Space Based Augmentation Systems (SBAS) – known in North America as the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) – have been fully operational in one form or another for several years. The…
