The GPS Week Number Rollover, which took place April 6, has caused several automated NOAA stations to go offline. Photo: NOAA According to the EOS website, 19 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) coastal and marine automated stations were not updated to mitigate the issue, and those stations are out of commission until workers can service them on location. In Alaska, five of the stations in and around Cook Inlet are down. The New York Times is reporting that […]

Researchers at Holst Centre and DuPont Teijin Films have created a high-performance yet cost-effective roll-to-roll barrier solution designed specifically for flexible photovoltaic (PV) cells. This production-ready solution combines Holst Centre’s advanced barrier technology with DuPont Teijin Films’ Peelable Clean Surface film. It could help extend the yield and working lifetime of organic, perovskite and CIGS PV cells, opening the door to cheaper, environmentally-friendly solar generation in more situations. Energy that helps and […]

Designed for demanding positioning and heading applications The P2 Elite GNSS sensor. (Photo: CHC Navigation) CHC Navigation has released the P2 GNSS sensor series,which provides high-accuracy positioning and heading in a compact, rugged enclosure. The P2 GNSS sensor series is suitable for a wide variety of applications such as reference station, marine systems, unmanned navigation, industrial automation, robotics and machine control. Integration. The P2 GNSS series is designed to significantly reduce system integration efforts by […]

We are thrilled to announce the certification of our G3X Touch flight display for hundreds of certificated aircraft. The G3X Touch offers a variety of scalable panel configurations and a superior feature set that includes wireless connectivity and synthetic vision as standard, as well as options such as display redundancy, advanced autopilot compatibility, engine monitoring and more. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has granted Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) approval for the installation of G3X Touch […]

The GAINS project has moved one step closer to demonstrating that general aviation (GA) is able to fly instrument procedures with radius-to-fix (RF) legs, thanks to a strong collaboration with EASA and the manufacturing industry, who worked together to clear the way for existing avionics to be used. GAINS – General Aviation Improved Navigation and Surveillance, is a project co-funded by the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research […]

Launch of a weather balloon in Australia. (Photo: Townsville Meteorological Office/Bureau of Meteorology) The GPS Week Number Rollover, which took place April 6, has grounded the Bureau of Meteorology’s (BOM) weather balloons. The fault was caused by the rollover of the time stamp in GPS signals, reports ABC news, which caused a  “technical fault with the equipment’s communications systems.” The weather balloons carry a radiosonde that includes GPS tracking. The radiosondes measure various atmospheric parameters and transmits […]

Swimming for healthy weight loss Are you under the impression that certain kinds of swimming barely qualify as exercise, for example when silver-haired seniors glide up and down at a stately pace? If so, then you’re wrong! Swimming is a highly effective method of weight loss. Gliding through the water with even strokes and a feeling of quasi-weightlessness — swimming often has something meditative about it. Surrounded by the blue tiles of the pool and […]

Kleos Space has signed a collaborative, non-binding, Memorandum of Understanding with leading Israeli based end-to-end geospatial intelligence company ImageSat International N.V. (iSi) to explore opportunities to use Kleos’ maritime RF activity-based satellite data to enhance geospatial intelligence analytics. Under the MoU, the companies will develop a value-add proposition for current and future iSi maritime customers using Kleos’ geolocation data. The MoU also covers the development of a methodology to reduce collection to dissemination […]

GPS signals extend farther than expected, meaning future space missions can reliably use GPS at extreme altitudes. By Danny Baird​NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland The four Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) spacecraft recently broke the world record for navigating with GPS signals farther from Earth than ever before. MMS’ success indicates that NASA spacecraft may soon be able to navigate via GPS as far away as the Moon, which will prove important to the Gateway, […]

The Garmin aviation team has expanded the availability of datalink weather through a technology demonstration in Friedrichshafen, Germany (EDNY). Using a ground-based Universal Access Transceiver (UAT) that is comprised of Garmin hardware at the EDNY airport, weather information is broadcast and received by aircraft equipped with select Garmin ADS-B In products and displayed on Garmin avionics and portables. For appropriately equipped aircraft, there is no additional cost to receive weather information during this evaluation period, […]