The Global Positioning System enterprise reached another major milestone on Oct. 21, when the GPS III Contingency Operations Program (COps) successfully connected with the first GPS III satellite on orbit. The COps system will allow the Air Force to operationally…
Space-to-Cloud Data Analytics Company Announces New Aircraft Tracking Technology Image: Spire Aviation Spire Global has announced the company’s first product from Spire Aviation with the launch of its new AirSafe API (application program interface.) Spire Aviation’s AirSafe product uses low-Earth…
UAVOS has added the R22-UV unmanned helicopter to its agriculture unmanned aircraft portfolio for spraying for diseases, weed and pest control, and vegetative control. The R22-UV is a manned Robinson-22 helicopter converted by UAVOS to an unmanned aircraft. (Photo: UAVOS)…
GSA Market Development Innovation Officer Eduard Escalona speaks at the Intergeo Galileo workshop. (Photo: GSA) News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Galileo and EGNOS were the focus of attention at a special workshop at this year’s Intergeo in Stuttgart,…
The United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced Oct. 11 that all 20,000 rebates offered to general aviation aircraft owners to equip their aircraft with Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast (ADS-B) Out have been issued and are no longer available.…
By Thomas Brading, Army News Service REDSTONE ARSENAL, Ala. — Sixty-two of the first iteration of mounted anti-jam GPS devices were equipped into light armored vehicles in Germany over the past month, with thousands more scheduled to be installed into…
Septentrio and CORE partner up to develop a GPS/GNSS receiver which will make use of Japan’s Centimeter-Level Augmentation Service (CLAS). CLAS corrections are broadcast directly via QZSS constellation to enable high-accuracy positioning across Japan. Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS…
Raytheon plans to deliver the final phase of the GPS Ground Control System (OCX) upgrade to the United States Air Force by June 2021, despite past delays to the program. A report by the General Accountability Office (GAO), issued in…
GPS might be interfered with globally Multiple, diverse PNT sources, modular open system needed for receivers Civil use hampering military efforts to leverage GPS for military advantage DoD PNT efforts to be increasingly classified, not shared with civil users In…
