As this issue goes to press in late August, the first Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS) space vehicle, nicknamed Michibiki, holds steady for a September 11 launch...
Read More →Brad Parkinson, the first GPS Program Office Director, chief architect and advocate for GPS, submitted written testimony to Congress on mitigation options for possible GPS brownouts. His presentation ...
Read More →The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) issued on May 7 an alarming report on the future of GPS, characterizing ongoing modernization efforts as shaky. The agency appears to single ou...
Read More →Withheld from the public for two years, since its completion in March 2007, the Independent Assessment Team (IAT) report has been let out of detention, just in time to counter recent efforts by the Ob...
Read More →Lt. Col. David Goldstein, chief engineer for the GPS Wing, told the plenary session at the European Navigation Conference in Naples, Italy, that the Wing is experiencing some “out of family” measu...
Read More →On October 28 GPS World survey and construction Editor Eric Gakstatter will be discussing the U.S. Department of Defense GPS Wing’s proposal to discontinue supporting Civil P(Y) semi-codeless on...
Read More →Need Clear Vision Well done on the editorial this month (“Skies Cloudy All Day,” October). I totally agree with you regarding the lack of clear vision for our GPS future. And I’m not...
Read More →Constellation Viability We recently discovered that in a 5-day period three GPS satellites were taken off line indefinitely with no explanation as to possible return to service. This is significant in...
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