English, Scottish firms to develop a more accurate atomic clock for GNSS

New atomic clock technology will improve GNSS location accuracy, as well as addressing the scalability of other quantum technologies being developed Nanofabrication experts Kelvin Nanotechnology have teamed up with product design specialist Wideblue, the University of Strathclyde and the University…
GLONASS company to build 27 more satellites

Artist’s rendering of a Glonass-K satellite. (Image: ISS-Reshetnev) ISS-Reshetnev Company — the primary GLONASS contractor — has a backlog of orders for navigation satellites up to 2025, according to General Director Nikolay Testoyedov. Testoyedov discussed GLONASS production on Dec. 30,…
The rise of UAVs in agriculture, airports, more

UAVs are finding places in the lives of many more people — farmers employing crop-spraying drones to counter a locus infestation in Pakistan, finding the way towards useful inspection tasks at an operating airport in the U.K., large airborne vehicles…
Army fields anti-jam GPS, plans for thousands more by 2028

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…
Tallysman adds 3 more to Helical antenna line

Photo: Tallysman Tallysman GNSS has added three new antennas to its Helical antenna line. Released earlier this year, the helical antenna line provides unprecedented performance in a lightweight, compact form factor. The line now extends beyond dual-band GNSS and Iridium…
China adds two more satellites to BeiDou constellation

Photo: Xinhua News Agency China has launched two more BeiDou III satellites. The launch took place on Sunday, March 23, according to the Xinhua News Agency using a Long March 3B rocket which lifted off from the Xichang space center…
Skydel updates SDX GNSS simulator with Galileo AltBOC, more

Skydel Solutions has updated its SDX GNSS simulator to version 19.1. The new version adds Galileo AltBOC signal generation, new atmospheric errors, SBAS improvements and SV antenna patterns. Galileo AltBOC. SDX now supports Galileo AltBOC as a new GNSS signal type.…

China will launch 11 more BeiDou-3 satellites by the end of 2018, according to Xinhua News Agency, the official state-run press agency. China has already launched eight BeiDou-3 satellites for its domestic BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS). The satellites will…