China launched two more Beidou-3 satellites on Friday, the seventh and eighth of the third phase of the Beidou system. Launch via Long March 3B rocket took place at 01:56 Beijing time Friday (17:56 UTC Thursday) from the Xichang Satellite…
News from the European Space Agency Galileo’s initial services have been running for more than 15 months now, and signals from the satellites in space are routinely serving users all across the world. The functioning of Galileo is dependent on…
The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and its NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) partners flew multiple unmanned aerial systems over a week-long testing period at the Nevada UAS Test Site at the Reno-Stead Airport. NASA UTM Testing. Credit: NIAS.…
At the GPS World Leadership Awards dinner, Charles Abraham, Andreas Warloe and Javier de Salas were named the winners of the Products Leadership Award for their work developing the first dual-frequency L1/L5 E1/E5 GNSS chip for smartphones, ushering in a…
The theme for this year’s Intergeo, taking place Oct. 16-18 in Frankfurt, Germany, is “Geoinformation — The DNA of digitalization.” According to event organizers, this year’s event will focus on the digital transformation of business and society. The event, hosted…
Tony MurfinContributing Editor, Professional OEM & UAV, GPS World As the days tick down towards the always-anticipated Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) Xponential convention in Denver May 1-3, the unmanned vehicle industry is preparing once more for one…
By Tommaso Panicciari, Mohamed Ali Soliman and Grégory Moura A real-time system combining a simulator and a GNSS propagation model reproduces an authentic multipath environment. The propagation model relies on a 3D-model reconstruction of the urban environment, which generates a…
Tersus GNSS is now offering its Davis real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS receiver with seven new base/rover kits. Tersus GNSS is a provider of centimeter-accuracy GNSS RTK solutions. The Tersus David GNSS receiver with its components create an affordable solution delivering…
The U.S. Air Force has awarded a GPS III satellite launch contract to SpaceX. This is the third GPS III launch contract awarded; the previous two also were awarded to SpaceX. SpaceX will receive a $ 290,594,130 firm-fixed-price contract for launch services to…
