September 30, 2020 VO2 max is the number that describes your cardiorespiratory fitness. It’s a single number that captures your heart, lungs, circulatory system, and muscle stats all working independently and together. And not surprisingly, your VO2 max is connected to health, performance and longevity. At the same time, many people find VO2 max difficult to understand on their Garmin smartwatch. Why? First, mixing letters, numbers and abbreviations together makes things look scary and complicated. Let’s skip past that problem for a […]

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 public launch of their Global Consortium of Geospatial Imagery. European Space Imaging, the leading supplier of global imagery in Europe and North Africa, joins as a founding member of the Global Consortium. Other partners include Eartheye from Singapore covering JAPAC, and 5CI Brazil and Colombia […]

Photo: lakshmiprasad S/iStock / Getty Images Plus/Getty Images Walmart is teaming up with drone delivery company Zipline to launch a drone delivery operation in the United States. According to Walmart, this first-of-its-kind drone delivery service will make on-demand deliveries of select health and wellness products with the potential to expand to general merchandise. Trial deliveries will take place near Walmart’s headquarters in Northwest Arkansas. The trials will use Zipline’s proprietary technology. Zipline will operate from […]

October 9, 2020 Calling all Garmin fans! We’re excited to announce The League of Garmin, our exclusive “street team,” go-getters who are active in their communities and live to beat yesterday. Interested in joining The League? Read on. Who You Are:You love Garmin, and you’re not afraid show it, tweet it or post a picture proclaiming it! You live to #beatyesterday and you inspire everyone around you to do the same. Or maybe you love […]

BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery, announced its fifth and sixth global satellites have completed commissioning and are in commercial operations. The addition of these two satellites to the BlackSky constellation brings higher resolution and increased revisits for key customer markets around the world. These latest two satellites launched in August 2020 and successfully achieved first images within 58 hours of operation. The satellites have […]

Yuechung International Corp. (YIC) is offering a GPS/GNSS module for internet of things (IoT) applications. YIC is a manufacturing and design company for quartz crystals, crystal oscillators, GPS/GNSS modules, GPS/GNSS receivers and RF antennas. It provides low-power solutions to solve product problems that require frequent charging. YIC’s new product — the Ultra Low Power GPS/GNSS Module (Model YIC71009EBGG and YIC71513PGMGG) — is designed as an IoT product solution, targeted to improve the operating times of […]

October 6, 2020 For “TheGearDude” Spencer Hill, dirt is his destination. The adventure rider recently added zūmo™ XT to his off-road experience in the Pacific Northwest. Here’s a snapshot from Spencer’s review on XLADV.com.   Out of the Box: The 5.5’’ responsive, glove friendly, glare-free touchscreen is impressive, and the zūmo XT’s lack of bulk made it easy to mount above the display on my KTM 790. I chose to mount it in the “portrait” orientation instead […]

SpaceX scrubbed the launch of the U.S. military’s latest model of Global Positioning System satellite from Florida on Friday night 2 seconds before the planned liftoff, just as the engine ignition sequence was beginning. The satellite was to carried aloft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:43 p.m. EDT from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station — the company’s third GPS launch from that complex. With the aborted attempt, SpaceX will try […]

GPS World, in conjunction with Spirent Federal Systems, will be hosting a webinar on Oct. 8 that will cover GPS program updates, as well as the program’s role in the Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) space enterprise architecture. The event will also discuss the effects of COVID-19 and any future plans for the GPS program. Event speakers will include Col. Ryan Colburn, director of SMC’s Spectrum Warfare Division; Shawn Ryan, BAE Systems Navigation & […]

October 5, 2020 The motorsports industry is loving Garmin Catalyst™. Learn more and see what they’re saying about the innovative driving performance optimizer*. WATCH: Eric Meyer, President of Instructor Summit, Interviews Driver Coach Peter Krause Watch the full episode here. LISTEN: Performance/Race Driver Coach Ross Bentley Interviews Lead Inventor Adam Spence from Garmin Speed Secrets – Episode 106 READ: In-depth Product Review by Brett Becker of Speed News – the Official Publication of the National […]