Javad Ashjaee (Photo: Javad GNSS) Javad Ashjaee, founder of JAVAD GNSS, has died in Moscow, Russia. He died on May 30 after a three-week fight with COVID-19. The news was first reported by a family member on social media. Ashjaee was born in 1949. “It is with heavy hearts that we share the news of the passing of our founder Javad Ashjaee, a GPS/GNSS pioneer and visionary, on the morning of May 30, 2020, due […]

May 31, 2020 It’s hard to believe that most days begin with blue bird skies and barely a whisper of wind. As the day heats up, we begin to see small cumulous clouds develop that soon start exploding energy high up into the atmosphere. It’s easy to get caught up and want to start chasing, but the key is to wait for which system becomes dominate. That’s our supercell. It’s such a wild ride the […]

SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. — The 2nd Space Operations Squadron performed the first station keeping maneuver on a GPS III satellite to Satellite Vehicle Number 75 at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, May 14. The maneuver set a new standard for how GPS maneuvers should be conducted for the squadron that provides precision, navigation and timing signals to billions of users around the world. A station keeping maneuver is performed to keep vehicles in […]

Image: NOAA The COSMIC-1 program ended on May 1, when the last of six tiny satellites were decommissioned. The satellites were launched 14 years ago, and outlived their planned lifespan by 12 years. COSMIC — the Constellation Observing System for Meteorology, Ionosphere  and Climate (COSMIC) mission — uses GPS signals to provide a wealth of accurate atmospheric data and improve weather forecasts, according to Laura Snider, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR), which ran the […]

May 29, 2020 If you love the Garmin Connect Badges and the hard work that goes into earning the newest one, you’re going to love our new Garmin Connect Badge Challenges. This new Garmin Connect feature offers a way for you to keep acquiring new badges all month long. You can rise to the challenge every day, pushing yourself further to beat yesterday.  You need to opt-in and join each Badge Challenge to earn the […]

Roboticists at the University of California San Diego have developed an affordable, easy to use system to track the location of flexible surgical robots inside the human body. The system performs as well as current state of the art methods, but is much less expensive. Many current methods also require exposure to radiation, while this system does not. The system was developed by Tania Morimoto, a professor of mechanical engineering at the […]

Hexagon | NovAtel has announced released its first purpose-built driver, powered by Robot Operating System (ROS), to support its OEM7 family of GNSS receivers. The driver, developed by NovAtel engineers, provides an optimized interface enabling users to accelerate autonomous development projects by quickly incorporating NovAtel OEM7 receivers into custom applications. The driver is available for immediate download through the new NovAtel GitHub repository or as a ROS Binary Package for direct installation. With the release […]

World Hall of Fame Golfer and Entrepreneur Greg Norman is known as much for his spirit in the boardroom as his dominance on the golf course. The internationally recognized “Great White Shark” won more than 90 tournaments worldwide, including two British Open Championships and holds the distinction of defending his No. 1 position in the world rankings for 331 consecutive weeks.  Listen in to hear Greg Norman’s story and philosophy on approaching business and competition. […]

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New research by Bjorn Bergman of the environmental non-profit SkyTruth has found ships in various parts of the world reporting locations thousands of miles away and circling at precisely 20 knots. Bergman’s findings were first reported at the annual meeting of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation on May 5. Bergman previously observed and reported on circling phenomena with GPS-based reporting systems from vessels and fitness trackers in China ports. It has also been observed […]