The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Rocket Lab Corporation to launch a dedicated Electron mission, marking the first time the company will deploy satellites for ESA’s next-generation ...

Operational Anti-Jam Units With some images courtesy of my friends at Raytheon, let’s look at a few examples of deployed military CRPA hardware over the years. The GAS-1 system entered service in the ...

Safran Electronics & Defense has introduced BlackNaute, a new autonomous positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system.

The box titled “Summary of Overall fit of Geoid18” provides a summary of the fit of residuals of Geoid18 from the NGS GEOID18 technical details document. Looking at the CONUS overall values, the ...

Timing from atomic clocks is now an integral part of data-center operations. The atomic clock time transmitted via Global Position System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ...

“The inverted geospatial pyramid” graphic depicts how the entire $1 trillion geospatial economy is supported and dependent on geodesy, and how it’s close to collapsing without an increase of support ...

You may have heard about “NMEA data” with respect to GPS. NMEA is an acronym for the National Marine Electronics Association. NMEA existed well before GPS was invented. According to the NMEA website, ...

China’s BeiDou GNSS is newer, has more features, is more accurate, and has more satellites in the skies of more nations than the venerable U.S. GPS, according to Sarah Sewall, Executive Vice President ...

Situation with regards to export: All listed products are unclassified, but are subject to U.S. ITAR restrictions. Roke Manor Research This column wouldn’t be complete without a few words on my own ...

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) has issued a report discussing whether a terrestrial wireless network proposed by Ligado Networks — and approved by the Federal ...

A tragedy in 1999 spurred development of an entirely new type of positioning and location technology. “This project started with the Worchester, Massachusetts, warehouse fire,” said William Stout, ...

The main critical applications for GNSS timing can be roughly grouped by the accuracy they require — but they are changing. “For example, for cellular systems up to 30 ns jitter used to be enough,” ...