“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GPS/GNSS industry. Galileo guides madrid metro buses Galileo and EGNOS are helping EMT Madrid to improve its…
Orolia’s Kannad Ultima-S emergency locator uses the Galileo Return Link Service. (Photo: Orolia) Orolia is introducing a new product for commercial aircraft safety, the Kannad Ultima-S emergency locator transmitter (ELT). The Kannad Ultima-S is designed to be installed in the…
Protective radome housing for the Galileo ground station on desolate Jan Mayen Island in the Norwegian Arctic. The site is housing a Galileo Sensor Station plus satellite link to pass data back to the Galileo ground system. (Photo: ESA/Fermin Alvarez…
U.S. manufacturers are eager to take advantage of the added accuracy that Galileo offers. (Image: GSA) News from the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Following a waiver by the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) of its rules in November 2018, in which…
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.…
The U.S. Federal Communications Commission will vote in November on whether to allow U.S. devices to access Galileo. The Galileo Order is tentatively on the agenda for the Open Commission Meeting scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 15: Galileo Order – The…
European students and researchers are invited to compete in a new Galileo smartphone app competition sponsored by the European Space Agency (ESA). The goal is to develop an app capable of performing fixes using raw Galileo satnav measurements. An earlier…
Rohde & Schwarz has added GPS L5 and Galileo E5 simulation capabilities to its R&S SMW200A GNSS simulator. The R&S SMW200A GNSS simulator is designed for efficient test and characterization of multi-constellation and multi-frequency GNSS receivers. With its additional simulation…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released an augmented reality view of Galileo satellites in the sky close to ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands. The image comes from a Galileo-focused satnav app for Android smartphones, developed by ESA engineers.…
