Surplus fuel loaded in error onboard the launch rocket caused loss of three new GLONASS satellites on December 5. The mishap burdened the DM-3 booster rocket with an excess of 1.5 to 2 tons of fuel, ...
Read More →QZSS Puts L1C on the Air JAVAD Receivers Track the First Truly Interoperable Signal JAVAD GNSS engineers in Moscow have released plots of the C/A, L2C, L5, SAIF, and the new L1C signals broadcast by J...
Read More →Two figures for your holiday mulling here. I keep putting one and one together, and coming up with three. The first one points to a value of $1,000 billion. Or, as we like to say, one trillion dollars...
Read More →Paul Verhoef Paul Verhoef, the European Commission’s program manager for European Union (EU) satellite navigation programs — namely Galileo — discussed current issues at some length with GPS Wor...
Read More →GPS World’s seventh annual Leadership Dinner, which took place during the ION-GNSS conference in Portland, Oregon, and was sponsored by Rockwell Collins, this year honored some of the surviving GPS ...
Read More →Engineers are an eager lot, by and large. They like talking about their work, openly showing information and results, testing their work against data and alternate hypotheses, getting feedback and eve...
Read More →Once envisioned to orbit 30 satellites, Galileo’s constellation has over time been reduced to a planned, though still not space-borne, four initial satellites plus 14 operational satellites for a to...
Read More →The following was delivered as an invited presentation at the Civil GPS Service Interface Committee plenary session, held September 20 in Portland, Oregon. Hi, my name is Alan, and I’m an accuracy ...
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