The 50th Space Wing's 2nd Space Operations Squadron accepted command and control of the first Global Positioning System Block IIF satellite at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The 45th Space Wing at Patrick AFB successfully launched a United Launch Alliance Delta IV-Medium rocket carrying the first Boeing-built...More>>

The GPS IIF satellite, launched from Cape Canaveral AFS on May 27, 2010, is now in the middle of its checkout process, and civil signal monitoring is an integral part of the GPS Wing's L-Band Signal-in-Space (SIS) performance assessment, according to Rick Hamilton, CGSIC Executive Secretariat of...More>>

GPS Source has added to its product line with the GLI Echo II, a GPS smart repeater. A primary LRU for GPS retransmission, it will provide a wireless or wired GPS signal live inside any military vehicle or aircraft, according to the company.More>>

This year for the first time the Space Foundation featured a full day of Cyberspace or Cyber 1.0 with topnotch senior speakers and expert panel members at the National Space Symposium (NSS) in Colorado. It was well worthwhile and I predict this part of the NSS will only continue to grow.More>>

The Global Positioning Systems Wing will be hosting on February 12 an Interface Control Working Group (ICWG) teleconference meeting for the document IS-GPS-200E (NAVSTAR GPS Space Segment/Navigation User Interfaces). The meeting will address comments received on L2 Phase Relationships after the...More>>

Precision technology company InterSense, Inc. has unveiled the NavChip OEM Developer’s Kit at the Institute of Navigation’s 2009 GNSS show. The kit includes a pre-release engineering sample of InterSense’s NavChip, which the company expects to become the industry’s first commercial inertial...More>>

The U.S. Space Exploration Policy, unveiled in 2004, seeks to extend human exploration with missions to the moon, Mars, and beyond. Implementing this ambitious Project Constellation (including a lunar outpost and trips to Mars) requires establishing a cost-effective, synergistic communications and...More>>

Who says space exploration is only for nations or corporations? This summer, students from Oklahoma State University's Radiation Physics Laboratory built and launched a cosmic radiation detector with GPS, which touched the edge of outer space.More>>

The phased transition of the 22-year-old Legacy GPS Master Control Station (MCS) to the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP) control segment, which became operational in September 2007, constituted a multi-year cooperative effort to achieve a seamless navigation service transition to GPS users.More>>

Modeling and simulation, two separate but related activities conducted prior to flight tests of high-performance military navigation systems, can reduce costs, shorten timelines, and remove some uncontrollable variables from the process, to deliver more accurate, verifiable results.More>>