Photo: Impossible Aerospace Auterion and Impossible Aerospace has announced their partnership and collaboration to bring to market the US-1 UAV, which has a two-hour flight time. Auterion is the provider of Auterion Enterprise PX4, an open-source-based, enterprise operating system for drones. Impossible Aerospace is Silicon Valley-based drone manufacturer on a mission to assemble the highest performance electric aircraft. “During critical public safety incidents, real-time intelligence from a UAV is extremely important. This is why the two-hour flight time of the […]

I grew up in Connecticut where you could only fish in the summer months so my other hobby which I ended up turning into a career was Saltwater Aquariums. Hence the name of our current GT 63’ Hatteras “Fish Tank”. Our relationship with Garmin began back in 2008 when my wife and I sold our businesses in the northeast, moved to Florida and bought a 35ft center console. We were originally attracted to Garmin because […]

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) used the Android Team Awareness Kit (ATAK), a technology develop by the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL), to rescue stranded ice fishermen from Lake Erie in northern Ohio. According to the Associated Press, rescuers arrived on scene after a large block of ice separated from the shore off Catawba Island. Armed with the AFRL technology, the USCG and local emergency personnel safely returned all 46 people to land. […]

Photo: HoneyWell Honeywell displayed its HG4930 MEMS-based inertial measurement unit (IMU) at Xponential 2019, which took place April 29-May 2 in Chicago. The company emphasized the IMU’s rugged design, which the company says allows the IMU to meet the needs of the most demanding users. The HG4930 also features gyroscopes, accelerometers and an internal environmental isolation system. Check out the video below, which showcases the HG4930 being treated as a hockey puck. According to Honeywell, […]

By Firstbeat VO2 max is the metric that describes your cardiorespiratory fitness and aerobic performance capacity. It is closely tied to your ability to sustain performance for longer periods of time. This makes thinking about performance capacity in terms of VO2 max very attractive to cyclists, runners, triathletes and other endurance athletes, who often rely on it to assess the productivity of their training efforts. This article will get you up to speed on what […]

Guided projectiles can provide sailors with precision fires Raytheon Company and the U.S. Navy completed a new round of successful Excalibur N5 munition test firings at Yuma Proving Ground in Arizona. Raytheon’s sea-based Excalibur N5 projectile will more than double the maximum range of conventional 5-inch munitions and provide the same accuracy as the land-based version. (Photo: U.S. Department of Defense) The precision-guided projectiles demonstrated various short-, mid- and long-range capabilities. Besides satellite navigation, Raytheon’s […]

Each year, leaders at Apogee Adventures guide hundreds of high school students on cycling, backpacking, hiking and service trips around the globe. Apogee trips can be long in duration and often remote — from hiking the rugged French Pyrenees to cycling the U.S. from coast to coast. As with any outdoor adventure, there are occasional bumps and bruises endured along the way. Serious emergencies and evacuations on Apogee trips are rare, but one incident last year put […]

The GSA is launching a new testing campaign for receiver manufacturers: The machine guidance testing campaign for agriculture receivers. Within this testing campaign, receivers usually used for machine guidance tasks will be thoroughly tested for their performance in various test cases, looking at multi-constellation and multi-frequency combinations and using several augmenting techniques. Given the accuracy requirement differential between machine guidance and automatic steering applications, less demanding applications from the point […]

The ZED-F9K module is designed to keep cars in their lanes. (Photo: u-blox) The new u‑blox ZED-F9K GNSS and dead-reckoning module is designed to bring continuous lane accurate positioning to challenging urban environments. The module offers both high-precision multi-band GNSS and inertial sensors. It combines the latest generation of GNSS receiver technology, signal processing algorithms and correction services to deliver down to decimeter-level accuracy within seconds, addressing the evolving needs of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) and automated driving […]

There are some who plan their ventures meticulously to avoid difficulties or obstacles. Others embrace challenges and seek the unknown. For the latter, there is the Adventurists. Started by Tom Morgan, this U.K.-based company creates large-scale events where participants can escape, in their words, “boringness and predictability.” In 2016, Americans Scott Gurian and Drew Gurian participated in the Adventurists’ 2016 Mongol Rally — an epic road trip that took the brothers 7 weeks to complete. […]