Directions 2022: BDS enters new era of global services

Yang Changfeng is BeiDou’s Chief Architect. (Photo: BeiDou Navigation Satellite System) Construction of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS-3) has been completed. The system was formally commissioned on July 31, 2020. In 2021, BDS continued to improve performance, expand applications…
Registration open for ITM/PTTI 2022 in Long Beach, California

ION’s winter meeting, the International Technical Meeting (ITM), is a more intimate conference with a technical program related to positioning, navigation and timing and includes the ION Fellows and Annual Awards presentations. In 2022, ITM will take place in Long…
New developments coming with the NGS 2022 datum change

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…