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, […]

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, a planned space station in lunar orbit. After navigation maneuvers conducted this February, MMS now reaches over 116,300 miles from Earth at the […]

Spirent Federal Systems, a provider of GPS/GNSS test equipment, announced that Col. (retired) Bernard Gruber, former program director of what is now the U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate, has joined the  company’s Board of Directors as government security committee chairman. Also joining as the chairman of the board is Robert Lollini. Spirent Federal President/CEO Ellen Hall stated, “We are happy to have retired Col. Gruber and Bob Lollini joining our dynamic company. We are leading […]

What archery-practice tips do you have for hunters chasing turkey with a bow? Hunting turkeys with a bow can be difficult. Not only do they have small vitals, but they seem to be constantly moving. Dialing in as accurately as possible always helps. I like to practice from a seated position to mimic a hunting situation, and I like to practice often. The more comfortable and confident you are, the better. What common turkey-hunting mistakes […]

Chinese and Arab officials and experts on Monday envisioned building a “Space Silk Road” through closer cooperation on wider application of China’s indigenously made BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) in the Middle East. Speaking at the second China-Arab States BDS Cooperation Forum held in the Tunisian capital Tunis, the officials and experts agreed that increased application of the BDS in the region could elevate the China-Arab strategic cooperation to a higher level […]