| Statement by Javad Ashjaee on PNT Advisory Board LightSquared Report
December 20, 2011
Article By: Javad Ashjaee According to the official test results, 300 million inexpensive GPS receivers in cell phones do not get affected by LightSquared, but the very expensive military GPS receivers that are supposed to be battle hardened do!More>> |
| Letters to the Editor: The Cost of Reliability
December 1, 2011
Article By: GPS World Staff Letters to the Editor: The Cost of Reliability More>> |
 | Preparing for the Next Generation: The Multi-GNSS Asia Demonstration Campaign
December 1, 2011
Article By: Chris Rizos A dramatic increase over the next five years to roughly 100 GNSS satellites in the skies over Asia and Oceania makes that region the fastest growing area in GNSS. The Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA) initiative, a cooperative international demonstration campaign, seeks to take full advantage of this...More>> |
| Expert Advice: MSS Misinformation, and Ten Truths
December 1, 2011
Article By: Richard G. Keegan LightSquared is currently conducting a public campaign intended to persuade federal regulators to approve a nationwide broadband service that would be detrimental to users and applications that depend on GPS. The campaign relies on misinformation, revisionist history, half-truths, and clear...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Feds Playing Footsie
December 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron I’ll be the first to say that I don’t know how Washington works. I don’t know if Washington works, but that’s another story. Lacking that knowledge, and a competent lawyer to pepper my filings with the requisite “Vaughn v. Rosen, 484 F.2d 820 (D.C. Cir. 1973), cert. denied, 415 U.S. 977...More>> |
 | The Hits and the Misses
November 29, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron LONDON — Technical conferences usually feature hits: advances in technology, new form factors, improved signal processing. But the opening day of the European Navigation Conference in London has dwelt instead on misses: vulnerabilities, threats, weaknesses that leave GNSS increasingly open to...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Realizing Europe’s SatNav Ambitions
November 1, 2011
Article By: Axelle Pomies, Gard Ueland The 21st century today faces and will continue to encounter many new societal challenges, all mutually interdependent: health, environment, agriculture, ageing population, personal security, public and civil protection, safe and efficient transport and mobility, citizen rescue, land management,...More>> |
 | Out in Front: Catch a Wave
November 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron Expecting guidance from FCC regulators by year’s end? LightSquared purports to do so, but a more measured evaluation finds a December decision unlikely. The current test cycle — hopefully not the final one — just reached its end on November 4 at White Sands Missile Range, under the Air...More>> |
 | Faster than a Speeding Light Particle
October 26, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron We published a news story recently suggesting that Albert Einstein, the Mighty Hip Einie, got one thing wrong, or at least not quite totally right: the universal upper limit constituted by the speed of light. Precise-timing GPS receivers in a Geneva lab helped indicate that subatomic neutrinos can...More>> |
 | Out in Front: C’mon, People Now
October 1, 2011
Article By: Alan Cameron In this hour of crisis, in this hour of need, I would recall for you the immortal words of the Brotherhood of Man, as reprised here by their disciples, Sonny and Cher: For united we stand, Divided we fall, And if our backs should ever be against the wall, We’ll be together, Together, you and I....More>> |
