Tallysman’s Allen Crawford gives an overview of the company’s new choke ring and helical antennas, as well as the VeraPhase antenna. Tallysman featured its new products at Intergeo 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. read more
In honor of 3.14.2019, here is what GPS World’s Innovation column editor Richard Langley wrote about π in an article (“A Sideways Look at How the Global Positioning System Works“) nine years ago. 3.1415926…. π. Every nerd’s favorite number. It is the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter in conventional or Euclidean space. We use it, for example, to... read more
Responsibility for in-depth troubleshooting and problem resolution of the GSC Ground Infrastructure has been transferred from a European GNSS Agency (GSA)-held European GNSS Service Centre (GSC) infrastructure contract to Spaceopal and its core team member DLR GfR, responsible in the Galileo Service Operator (GSOp) industrial organization also for L2/L3 maintenance activity. This contract extends for 10 years. The transfer occurred... read more
The 50th Space Wing Public Affairs office of Schriever Air Force Base has established and posted guidelines, known as Interface Specification GPS-200 (IS-GPS-200), for receiver manufacturers to ensure continued capability during the April 6 GPS Week Number Rollover on Coordinated Universal Time derived from GPS devices. According to the 50th Space Wing, users should be aware of the upcoming GPS Week Number Rollover as... read more
By: J. David Grossman, GPS Innovation Alliance Senators Joni Ernst (R-IA) and Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) joined Representatives Dave Loebsack (D-IA) and Don Bacon (R-NE) in launching the Congressional GPS Caucus in March. This bipartisan, bicameral caucus will elevate the ever-increasing importance of GPS technologies to the U.S. economy and infrastructure. As evidence of that, today more than 3.3 million jobs... read more
Satel’s Arja Vainio introduces the company’s new SATEL-TR49 module at Intergeo 2018, which took place Oct. 16-18 in Frankfurt, Germany. TR49 is a small dual band and multimode transceiver that uses the licensed 410-475 MHz and licence-free 902-928 MHz bands. read more
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