August 13, 2020 While shooting Garmin’s latest TV spot for the Instinct® GPS smartwatch, our marketing team kept the cameras rolling to show you a behind-the-scenes look at the process. Before any shoot, the single most important thing is having a spectacular product. Instinct is a fantastic tool built to help people live out their passions — it’s a product that needs to be shown out in the wild. So we traveled to some of […]

The launch of Russia’s next-generation Glonass-K navigation satellite, which has been postponed several times since March, is planned for mid-October, a space industry revealed on Saturday. “The launch of Glonass-K satellite has been postponed until October. The preliminary date of the launch is 17 October. There are no any technical difficulties to carry out the launch”, the source said. In early August, another space industry source stated that the launch […]

Using RTK’s pinpoint-level location data in the Verizon network is a building block to bring to scale emerging technologies such as driverless city zones, expansion of precision agriculture and drone delivery. Verizon has launched what it calls hyper-precise location using real-time kinematics (RTK) to provide accuracy within 1 to 2 centimeters on the Verizon network. Verizon has built and deployed RTK reference stations nationwide so that compatible internet of things (IoT) devices can receive the […]

August 15, 2020 Swimmers, you can now view your open-water swim performance data in real-time, right before your eyes. If you use FORM Smart Swim Goggles and have a compatible Garmin smartwatch, a free firmware update connecting the two devices will give you the unprecedented ability to view your Garmin GPS performance metrics and heart rate while swimming. Access your data in the pool or open water through the augmented reality display in your FORM goggles. […]

The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Space and the Missile Systems Center achieved another major Global Positioning System (GPS) milestone on July 27 when the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 03 received USSF’s Operational Acceptance approval. The GPS III satellites are the newest generation built by Lockheed Martin that provide precise positioning, navigation and timing information with three times better accuracy, and up to eight times improved anti-jamming capability than […]

Download the report. A new study for the National Geodetic Survey (NGS) reviews and validates airport surveys from a safety perspective. The study, “Protecting Against Airport Obstructions: Socio-Economic Study of the NGS Aeronautical Survey Program,” is by Irv Leveson and the staff of ARCBridge Consulting and Training Inc. Goals of the scoping study are to: provide a better understanding of the activity, uses, users and broader beneficiaries of the National Geodetic Survey’s Aeronautical Survey Program, help […]

August 14, 2020 At any given time, the dispatcher at Tordrillo Mountain Lodge can monitor where certain guides and helicopters are located while in the field. Given that the lodge is only accessible by a 40-minute bush plane flight from Anchorage and offers some of the most remote adventures in the country, that’s pretty important. The luxury adventure lodge in the heart of Alaska’s Tordrillo Range was dreamed up more than 20 years ago by […]

The Navigation Technology Satellite – 3 (NTS-3) spacecraft passed Critical Design Review (CDR) on June 25, a major milestone, allowing L3Harris, the prime contractor for the spacecraft, to proceed into fabrication, demonstration, and test. In partnership with the Space and Missile Systems Center, United States Space Force, and the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) will demonstrate revolutionary space-based position, navigation, and timing (PNT) techniques and […]

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy is asking for ideas on what technology to research to protect GPS. The research and development dollars are earmarked for projects that minimize or eliminate disruption to critical infrastructure from intentional and unintentional interference. The “Notice of Request for Information on Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Resilience” was issued Aug. 10 in the Federal Register. The office is seeking input “from all interested parties on the development […]

Space and Missile Systems Center Public Affairs / Published August 10, 2020 Space and Missile Systems Center Public Affairs — The United States Space Force (USSF) and the Space and the Missile Systems Center achieved another major Global Positioning System (GPS) milestone on July 27 when the GPS III Space Vehicle (SV) 03 received USSF’s Operational Acceptance approval. The GPS III satellites are the newest generation built by Lockheed Martin that provide precise […]