The U.S. Army is opening a new office and laboratory to develop agile position, navigation and timing solutions to reduce soldiers’ dependence on GPS, according to reports in C4ISRNET and Defense News. The new PNT Modernization product office will focus on developing and deploying solutions that keep soldiers operating in areas where the GPS signal has been denied, degraded or spoofed. The office will open Oct. 8, and will use an open-systems architecture. The new […]

September 25, 2020 It’d be easy to call this year a wash. Start again in 2021. But try telling that to Garmin Pro Clark Wendlandt. As things stand now, Wendlandt is leading the Bassmaster Angler of the Year points race. This might just be his year — but don’t tell him that.   “With four tournaments to go, it feels a bit early to talk about the AOY,” he said in an email. “The one thing […]

BlackSky announced plans on Thursday to expand its network to include satellites that can provide high-resolution and nighttime images for the U.S. military. BlackSky, already a major provider of global monitoring services, geospatial intelligence and satellite imagery for the Pentagon, said its Gen-3 satellite architecture will be able to produce images with 50-centimeter resolution and enhanced spectral diversity. The upgrades will allow it to provide real-time insights to customers that include the Department of Defense […]

Image: Beidou constellation On Sept. 23, the China Beidou Application Conference and the Ninth Annual Conference of China Satellite Navigation and Location Services were held in Wuhan, according to a press release from haiwainet (People’s Daily), an official Communist Party newspaper of China. Attending the conference were 700 experts, officials and entrepreneurs, as well as company representatives from BDStar Navigation, Amap, Allystar, Unistrong and Wuhan Exsun. “Delegates agreed that China’s BDS PNT (positioning, navigation and […]

September 25, 2020 Our latest GTN™ Xi series navigators offer numerous benefits over earlier GTN™ models. Some of the operational advantages include a touchscreen display that is brighter and sharper, and faster processing speeds that make performance a breeze. But one of greatest benefits comes before any flight takes place. Designed as direct, slide-in upgrade for its predecessor, GTN Xi can replace existing GTN units utilizing the same mounting hardware, helping to eliminate costly and […]

SES reports it has joined as the medium Earth orbit (MEO) connectivity partner for Microsoft Azure Orbital, Microsoft’s new managed service enabling network operators to communicate and control their satellite capacity, process data, and scale their operations directly within Azure. The integration is part of a multi-year agreement between the two companies that accelerates and expands SES’s use of Azure to significantly advance the digital transformation of the company’s services and operations as part […]

Image: ESA The European Commission (EC) is seeking help to build a roadmap for high-accuracy Galileo and EGNOS services. The EC Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space (DG-DEFIS) has issued an Invitation to Tender for a service contract to address how the future evolution of European GNSS (EGNSS) could be beneficial for innovative demanding applications. The new service contract will assess the feasibility of an integrity service complementing EGNSS high accuracy in the 2030+ timeframe. […]

September 23, 2020 By Libby Dykes, Garmin Ambassador, @iron_tica With the coronavirus pandemic impacting all facets of our lives, many of us may be struggling to stay motivated with our training. Under normal circumstances, races have served as valuable sources of motivation. They gave us a target or destination to reach for and complete. They pushed us to improve our performance and monitor our progress toward our goals. With most events canceled for safety reasons, […]

By Roi Mit, CMO, Regulus Cyber Roi Mit, CMO, Regulus Cyber GPS technology is doing far more than helping us navigate or receive accurate time. It is now being used to fight the spread of the global COVID-19 pandemic. Global navigation satellite systems are being used to collect big data on travel and contact, but they are also being used in more unconventional ways: for example, quarantine enforcement and sanitation technology. Read on to learn […]

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