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NavTechGPS offers GNSS and INS courses in New Orleans

August 14, 2019

NavtechGPS is offering the following multi-day training sessions on GNSS/GPS technology in New Orleans this December. Both courses […]

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This article is tagged with continuing education, GNSS, GPS, inertial system, INS, NavtechGPS, New Orleans, technology, training and posted in GNSS, Latest News

Galileo’s Ground Mission Segment in the Fucino Control Centre in Italy oversees Galileo navigation services and satellite payload operations. Photo: Telespazio.

Galileo’s initial services rocky patch continues

July 15, 2019

The Galileo signal outage, ongoing since Thursday, July 11, has been attributed to a problem with the system’s […]

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This article is tagged with European GNSS Agency, Galileo, Galileo constellation, Galileo signal outage, GPS, ground infrastructure, GSA and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News, Uncategorized

Drawing of the DSAC mercury-ion trap showing the traps and the titanium vacuum tube that confine the ions. The quadrupole trap is where the hyper-fine transition is optically measured and the multipole trap is where the ions are “interrogated” by a microwave signal via a waveguide from the quartz oscillator. (Image: NASA.)

Mercury-ion atomic clock holds promise for greater GPS accuracy

June 10, 2019

The National Aeronautic and Space Administration (NASA) is readying for an ultra-precise atomic clock that could not only […]

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This article is tagged with atomic clocks, Deep Space Atomic Clock, DSAC, GPS, GPS modernization, GPS timing, NASA, timing and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

Col. Bernie Gruber in 2012. Photo: U.S. Air Force

Bernard Gruber, former GPS Program director, joins Spirent Federal Systems Board

April 5, 2019

Spirent Federal Systems, a provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, announced that Col. (retired) Bernard Gruber, former program director […]

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This article is tagged with Bernard Gruber, GPS, GPS modernization, Robert Lollini, simulator, Spirent, Spirent Federal Systems, U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate and posted in Defense, GNSS, Latest News, OEM

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Happy Pi Day

March 14, 2019

In honor of 3.14.2019, here is what GPS World’s Innovation column editor Richard Langley wrote about π in an […]

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This article is tagged with GPS, Innovation, IS-GPS-200, Langley, math, pi, Pi Day, Richard Langley and posted in Featured Stories, Innovation

From left: 2019 QEPrize winners Richard Schwartz, Bradford Parkinson, James Spilker and Hugo Fruehauf. (Photo: QEPrize)

2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering goes to GPS

February 13, 2019

The United Kingdom’s 2019 Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering has been awarded to the creators of the U.S. […]

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This article is tagged with Dr. Bradford Parkinson, GPS, Hugo FrueHauf, Professor James Spilker, Queen Elizabeth Prize, Richard Schwartz and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

All hail the GPS Gold Standard’s new golden era

January 10, 2019

Elsewhere in this (January) issue you’ll find the hard facts — basic, but hard — concerning the inaugural […]

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This article is tagged with Galileo, GAO, gold standard, GPS, GPS III, GPS modernization, GPS OCX and posted in From the Magazine, Opinions

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ICG aims for stronger interoperability, transparency

November 12, 2018

The United Nations’ International Committee on GNSS (ICG) held its 13th meeting in Xi’an, China, Nov. 4-9. Attendees […]

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This article is tagged with BeiDou, Galileo, GLONASS, GPS, ICG, International Committee on GNSS, interoperability and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News