China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 17:43:04.482 UTC on Nov. 5. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 49th…
Pluggable line card enables easy transition to precise ePRTC (enhanced primary reference time clock) and PRTC-B based synchronization Adva’s new multi-band GNSS receiver improves nanosecond timing accuracy to 5G networks (Photo: Business Wire) Adva has launched a modular multi-band GNSS receiver…
Heraclitus (Photo: NPR.org) A famous quote applies to almost everything in our lives: “There is nothing permanent except change.” This well-known saying is generally credited to the Greek philosopher Heraclitus (500 B.C.E.), although many historians and philosophy experts tend to…
A cockpit equipped with ADS-B controls. (Photo: FAA) Canada will be delaying the implementation dates for Phases 1 and 2 of its ADS-B Out Performance Requirements Mandate, according to a report by the Canadian Owners and Pilots Association. ADS-B stands…
Eos Locate for Collector for ArcGIS enables utilities to map buried assets with submeter or centimeter accuracy A worker using an Arrow receiver and vLoc from Vivax Metrotech. (Photo: Eos Positioning) Eos Positioning Systems Inc. (Eos) has released its underground…
This month, the University of Texas at Austin became a major research hub for the U.S. Army Futures Command. On Oct. 12, the Futures Command broke ground on a $ 130 million research facility at the Texas A&M University System’s…
Photo: Uber Uber Elevate, Uber’s aviation division, unveiled a new food-delivery drone at Forbes’ Under 30 Summit in Detroit on Monday, according to various news reports. The six-rotor UAV is vertical- and horizontal flight-capable, Uber Elevate head Eric Allison said…
Photo: SimActive SimActive Inc., a developer of photogrammetry software, announces that its Correlator3D software has been used by Air Data Solutions (ADS) in Florida to determine financial assistance following Hurricane Dorian. Aerial imagery was collected before the storm for pre-hurricane…
Credit: Orbital ATK Eutelsat Communications is investigating an incident on one of the two solar arrays on its Eutelsat 5 West B satellite. The satellite, launched Oct. 9, carries a payload for the European GNSS Agency (GSA) called GEO-3. GEO-3…
