By The Masked Engineer In a few weeks, we will again observe the tragic anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States. This will mark nearly a full decade since that terrible day that changed ...
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I had the honor of attending Colonel David Maddens’ retirement luncheon at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) on Los Angeles Air Force Base (LAAFB) on June 16, and it was quite an event. Jus...
Read More →I attended (and presented at) the 2010 ESRI Surveying and Engineering GIS Summit (SEGS) last week, as well as the ESRI International User Conference (UC). I’m telling you, if you’ve never been to ...
Read More →September 1992. One of the first industrial uses of GPS came in survey and seismic exploration for offshore oil, as evidenced by the cover story of this magazine’s September 1992 issue. A salient pa...
Read More →Our readers respond to the cover features in the April, May, and June issues: the two-part special the “Origins of GPS” and Richard Langley’s look at “GPS by the Numbers.”...
Read More →Greg Turetzky by Greg Turetzky I started my relationship with GNSS and Moore’s Law in 1985, writing software for GPS tracking loops on the Advanced Range Instrumentation Aircraft program at the Appl...
Read More →I received some interesting e-mails and saw some web comments regarding my newsletter column a couple of weeks ago titled “What’s Going to Happen When High-Accuracy GPS is Cheap?” The commen...
Read More →Last week, as you may have heard given the multiple launch delays, the United Launch Alliance (a Lockheed and Boeing joint venture), under contract with the U.S. Air Force, successfully rocketed a new...
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