Start Preamble National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). Notice of meeting. In accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, and the President’s 2004 U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Policy, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) announces a meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board. Wednesday, November 20, 2019, 8:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.; and Thursday, November 21, 2019, 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., Local Time. […]

China sent a new satellite of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 1:43 a.m. Tuesday. Launched on a Long March-3B carrier rocket, it is the 49th satellite of the BDS satellite family and the 24th satellite of the BDS-3 system. It also marked that a total of three BDS-3 satellites have been sent into the inclined geosynchronous Earth orbit. The launch was the […]

November 6, 2019 By Riikka Lamminen, Content Manager, Firstbeat The first thing you should know about stress is that it isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Stress is an inevitable part of life, and you couldn’t cope without it. You need stress to get things done and perform in life. It makes you feel excited and productive. However, stress becomes a serious problem when it exceeds your ability to recover and bounce back. Especially troubling is the fact that we often don’t realize […]

CHC Navigation has launched its LT700H RTK Android tablet, designed to increase efficiency and productivity of the mobile field workforce in applications requiring centimeter-to-decimeter positioning accuracy. Photo: CHC Navigation Portable, rugged and versatile, the LT700H enables precision GIS data collection, forensic mapping, construction site layout, environmental surveys, landscaping and earthmoving jobs. Powered by 184-channel high-performance GPS, GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou module and a superior tracking GNSS helical antenna, the LT700H provides position availability in demanding […]

October 28, 2019 Good news! The FAA has made filing IFR flight plans easier. They recently completed a modernization effort eliminating the need to contact Flight Service to activate a flight plan. Before, flight plans needed to be relayed through the Flight Service “middleman” in locations where ATC could not be directly contacted — such as a non-towered airport. Now the FAA has developed a network of clearance delivery phone numbers pilots can call to […]

Eos Locate for Collector for ArcGIS enables utilities to map buried assets with submeter or centimeter accuracy A worker using an Arrow receiver and vLoc from Vivax Metrotech. (Photo: Eos Positioning) Eos Positioning Systems Inc.  (Eos) has released its underground utility asset-mapping solution: Eos Locate for Collector for ArcGIS. Eos Locate for Collector combines three core technologies: Eos Arrow GNSS receivers, Esri Collector, and the Vivax-Metrotech vLoc Series of locator devices. With Eos Locate for […]

November 1, 2019 By Frank Sargeant, The Fishing Wire One of the reasons I’m inclined to sneak off to places like the high-country trout streams of Colorado now and then is because if you get back in far enough, you’re off the grid—you’re no longer “connected”, and those clients whom I love so dearly because they put food on my table but hate so much because they frequently message me at 5 a.m. with jobs […]

This is a combined synopsis/solicitation for commercial items prepared in accordance with the format in Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) Subpart 12.6 as supplemented with additional information included in this notice. This announcement constitutes the only solicitation; quotations are being requested and a written solicitation will not be issued. Solicitation No. 6913G619Q300177 is issued as a Request for Quotation (RFQ). This solicitation is being conducted in accordance with the policies and procedures prescribed in FAR Part […]

This month, the University of Texas at Austin became a major research hub for the U.S. Army Futures Command. On Oct. 12, the Futures Command broke ground on a $130 million research facility at the Texas A&M University System’s RELLIS Campus in Bryan, Texas. Efforts at both locations will include research on advanced and assured positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) systems. The Army Futures Command was established in Austin during the summer of 2018. It […]

October 30, 2019 When Chase and Aimee Bartee got in their car — stuffed to the roof with gear — to travel nearly 1,000 miles to a largely roadless, uninhabited area of Canada, they weren’t entirely sure what they were getting into. The plan was to travel by car, train and floatplane to Labrador, Canada, where 100,000 square miles of raw wilderness awaited them. It’s a place where — at least according to written record […]