Following the 2018 Public Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) in September, the GPS Directorate invites additional public comments on the following Proposed Interface Revision Notices (PIRNs) due to the nature of changes since the June 2018 review. The documents are available in the Public ICWG section of GPS.gov. PIRN-IS-200J-001, v2: NAVSTAR GPS Space Segment / Navigation User Interface PIRN-IS-705E-001, v2:... read more
The U.S. Air Force’s first Lockheed Martin-built GPS III satellite is now encapsulated for its planned Dec. 18 launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. GPS III Space Vehicle 01 (GPS III SV01) underwent pre-launch processing, fueling and encapsulation at Astrotech Space Operations in Titusville, Florida. During encapsulation, GPS III SV01 was sealed... read more
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) has completed its acquisition of Rockwell Collins. The two companies will now combine to form Collins Aerospace Systems and be based in Palm Beach City, Florida. Collins Aerospace Systems will have about 70,000 employees. Rockwell Collins CEO and President Kelly Ortberg will be the CEO of the newly formed company. UTC Aerospace President Dave Gitlin will... read more
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) has awarded GeoNorth Information Systems (GNIS) a five-year, $15 million contract for persistent surveillance services of the Arctic region. Lockheed Martin will provide a scalable geospatial processing platform to enable the surveillance project. GNIS will leverage Lockheed Martin’s Rosetta technology, which includes a versatile and highly automated set of commercial and civil image processing tools... read more
The U.S. Air Force has selected an anti-jam GPS receiver from Collins Aerospace (through the division formerly known as Rockwell Collins) for Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve F-16 fighter aircraft. The U.S. Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (USAF AFLCMC) chose Collins Aerospace to supply its latest-generation Digital GPS Anti-Jam Receiver (DIGAR), designed to prevent jamming of GPS signals.... read more
By Yang Changfeng Chief Architect, BeiDou Navigation Satellite System As one of the core GNSS, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) has been developed following a three-step development strategy. By around 2020, BDS will form a space constellation consisting of 30 satellites, including three satellites in geostationary earth orbit (GEO), three satellites in inclined geosynchronous satellite orbits (IGSO), and 24... read more
Blue Marble Geographics has launched its 2019 Geographic Calculator, which features a universal copy and paste function, a new angular unit conversion tool, support for NADCON 5.0 and updated seismic survey conversion functionality. According to Blue Marble, the foundation of the Geographic Calculator’s geodetic data processing functionality is the embedded GeoCalc datasource, which is continually revised and improved with updates... read more
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