ISS Reshetnev has reported that the Russian Space Agency's Luch-5A relay satellite has passed the initial inspection carried out at its temporary location at about 58.5 degrees east longitude. On January 13, the company stated that the satellite is being maintained in standby mode with company...More>>

The following updates to GNSS constellations is provided by the CANSPACE Listserv. Included are updates on GPS, GLONASS, Beidou-2/Compass, and SDMA.More>>

Geneq Inc. introduced an searchable, online map of DGPS beacon stations that allows users to search for free DGPS corrections anywhere in the world. Free, high precision DGPS corrections are broadcast in 42 countries around the world from terrestrial towers at ranges of up to 500km from each tower....More>>

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>>

Free downloadable software Toolkits at www.egnos-portal.eu can help cell-phone and handheld receiver developers enhance location and timing applications with GPS corrrection data from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite-based augmentation system. The Toolkits...More>>

As part of Road Safety Week (21st-27th Nov) recent research by leading telematics provider Trimble indicates that six out of ten UK motorists admit to speeding on Britain’s roads. However, 70 per cent of drivers would be tempted to slow down if they would benefit from cheaper car insurance.More>>

Skyguide, Switzerland's air navigation service provider, has adopted its first approach procedures using data from Europe's EGNOS satellite system. The new satellite-based approaches, which have been introduced at the regional airports of St. Gallen-Altenrhein and Les Eplatures (near La...More>>

For the past several months, controversy has raged over the revelation that Apple and Google tracked mobile subscriber location movements and stored that information in an unencrypted file on the handset, where it was potentially vulnerable to hacking and other inappropriate usage. The resulting...More>>

This blog presents an efficient procedure for directly geo-referencing static 3D laser scans. This is a worthwhile way to obtain the required transformation parameters from the local sensor-defined coordinate system to a global system. Therefore, a multi-sensor systems (MSS) is designed with a...More>>

The Indian Regional Navigational Satellite System (IRNSS) payload system engineering group of the Space Applications Centre (SAC) in Ahmedabad, India, has selected IFEN’s multi‐constellation and multi‐frequency GNSS RF simulator NavX‐NCS Professional as the new reference simulator for its...More>>