Qualcomm Incorporated has announced that its subsidiary, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., is enhancing location precision in smartphones and tablets […]
PCTEL, Inc. announced the launch of its next generation multi-band GNSS antennas for global timing and precision tracking […]
Future positioning and navigation applications of modernizing and newly established GNSSs will require a higher degree of signal accuracy and precision. Thus, rigorous and detailed analysis of the signal quality of recently launched satellites, including the discovery of any possible imperfections in their performance, will have important implications for future users.
A few months ago I wrote in the magazine’s Out in Front column about the surprising abundance of […]
The NavX-NCS GNSS multi-frequency simulator now supports China’s BeiDou-2 navigation satellite system. BeiDou support is a key enhancement […]
The International GNSS Service MGEX CampaignGPS is almost 40 years old. While mass consumer use of GPS began only within the past decade or so, GPS was “born” during the Labor Day weekend of 1973, when about a dozen military officers and industry analysts under the leadership of Brad Parkinson met to consolidate the concept for a single satellite-based navigation system for the U.S. Department of Defense. Their proposal for NAVSTAR GPS was approved on December 22, 1973. The first satellite to be launched under the GPS program, on July 14, 1974, was the Naval Research Laboratory’s Navigation Technology Satellite (NTS) 1.
By Greg Turetzky, Intel I recently attended the Fourth China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC, held May 15–17 in […]
The chief designer of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System said China will advocate the use of the system, […]
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