Seen & heard: BeiDou birds and spoofing target airlines
November 22, 2023
“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry.
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“Seen & Heard” is a monthly feature of GPS World magazine, traveling the world to capture interesting and unusual news stories involving the GNSS/PNT industry.
Fifty years since it was designed and approved by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD), the GPS is at risk of losing its status as the world’s gold-standard location service, reported The Wall Street Journal.
In this month’s cover story, we focus on these aspects of GNSS by presenting three brief case studies, featuring u-blox, Trimble and CHC Navigation and how their PNT technology can be applied to a variety of industries.
The U.S. Department of Defense has called for thousands of UAVs to be built as a part of its Replicator initiative that aims to hasten military innovation to “leverage platforms that are small, smart, cheap and many,”
Two recent announcements showed China’s progress establishing its national “High-Precision Ground-based Timing System.”
GPS ground stations that are contracted by Raytheon Technologies to replace the current ground stations are more than seven years behind schedule and lawmakers are not happy.
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 for Strategic Issues at IQT.
On May 16, China launched a BeiDou satellite to replenish the constellation, reported Space News. This brings the […]
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