Hexagon’s Autonomy and Positioning division has launched its first autonomy positioning and sensing kits for the agriculture market and validated these solutions in its new autonomous research and development tractor. Through collaboration between NovAtel and AutonomouStuff, both part of Hexagon, the autonomous positioning and sensing kits were developed as part of Hexagon’s Smart Autonomous Mobility solutions portfolio launched at CES in early 2020. With decades of expertise in GNSS positioning, autonomy and safety-critical applications, NovAtel […]

September 9, 2020 “How do I master the perfect pedal stroke?” A lot of cyclists ask themselves this very question, so let’s dive a little deeper. The quest to perfect your pedal stroke involves asking yourself several other questions, such as, “what is the best way I can apply force on my smart trainer pedals?” And “how do the pros deal with this?” Or even, “where does bike position factor in?” The first question is […]

John Fisher. (Photo: Orolia) John Fischer, vice president of advanced R&D at Orolia, will join three industry leaders as a panelist in a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) workshop about the federal government’s PNT Executive Order. Fischer is a member of GPS World’s Editorial Advisory Board. Other workshop panelists include Michael Calabro, chief engineer at Booz Allen Hamilton; Michael J. Lewis, senior staff security strategist at Chevron; and Gerardo Trevino, technical leader in […]

September 7, 2020 Garmin Edge® is one of the most popular head units around. Not only because it ticks all the boxes of performance, navigation, safety and connectivity, it’s because it also collects data – a lot of data. Pro cycling teams are very keen on that and that’s one of the reasons you would’ve seem a lot of riders using this device during the Tour the France. One of the world’s top teams, NTT […]

In the largest-ever study of glacial lakes, researchers using 30 years of NASA satellite data have found that the volume of these lakes worldwide has increased by about 50% since 1990 as glaciers melt and retreat due to climate change. The findings, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, will aid researchers assessing the potential hazards to communities downstream of these often unstable lakes and help improve the accuracy of sea level […]

The 2020 GPS Public Interface Control Working Group Meeting will take place on Sept. 30, announced the U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center. The meeting includes an open forum to update the public on GPS public document revisions. The meeting will collect issues and comments for analysis and possible integration into future GPS public document revisions. The meeting is scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time). Portfolio Architect Corp. will […]

Satellogic, the first company to develop a scalable Earth observation platform with the ability to remap the entire planet at both high-frequency and high-resolution, has announced the launch of a new spacecraft from the Guiana Space Center via a launch procured by Spaceflight, Inc. The satellite, a NewSat Mark IV, was delivered to a sun-synchronous low-Earth orbit on a Vega rocket from Arianespace at 1:51am UTC on September 3, 2020. The spacecraft […]

Synopsys Inc. and Nestwave are collaborating to combine Nestwave’s geolocation software with the Synopsys DesignWare ARC IoT Communications Subsystem for a complete low-power GNSS solution for integration into IoT modems. The collaboration will provide designers with a power-efficient, high-accuracy GPS solution for battery-operated devices without the additional cost of a dedicated GNSS chip. The joint solution will be presented at the Synopsys ARC Processor Virtual Summit on Wednesday, Sept. 9. “Today’s advanced navigation systems are […]

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Satellite NTS-3 above Earth. (Illustration: Lt. Jacob Lutz, AFRL Space Vehicles Directorate) L3Harris Technologies is on track to begin building the U.S. Air Force’s first Navigation Technology Satellite-3 (NTS-3) after completing the program’s critical design review. According to L3Harris, it will integrate the program’s experimental payload with an ESPAStar Platform, planned for launch in 2022. The system is designed to augment space-based position, navigation and timing (PNT) capabilities for warfighters. The NTS-3 payload features a […]