FreeFlight Systems and Septentrio Satellite Navigation have formed a strategic partnership to develop advanced GPS/SBAS receivers for air traffic control of aircraft. More>>

Garmin International Inc., a unit of Garmin Ltd., will soon include synthetic vision in the G300 and G3X, the avionic platforms for Cessna’s Skycatcher and other experimental and light sport aircraft (LSA), respectively. More>>

The AiRx2 by Septentrio is a compact TSO-certifiable GPS+SBAS Beta-3 OEM receiver, specially designed for integration in precision aviation applications such as ADS-B, LPV approach, or RNP-NAV applications. AiRx2 is ready for in-the-field upgrade to GPS L5 and Galileo, Septentrio said.More>>

The U.S. Government is providing notice that it is actively considering several mitigation options prior to changing the health status of Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite IIR-20M (SVN-49) from unhealthy to healthy.More>>

Original equipment manufacturer (OEM) NovAtel has introduced the SPAN-MPPC at ION GNSS 2009 in Savannah, Georgia. The SPAN-MPPC provides the processing power of the company’s SPAN (Synchronous Position, Attitude and Navigation) engine, the SPAN-SE, in a card-stack form factor that can be...More>>

NovAtel Inc. introduced the FlexPak-G2 enclosure Wednesday at the ION GNSS 2009 tradeshow in Savannah, Georgia. The FlexPak-G2 enclosure is compact for easy integration and supports NovAtel’s industry-leading OEMV-1, OEMV-1G and OEMV-2 line of high-precision GNSS receivers.More>>

Trimble today introduced the Trimble AP Series of embedded GNSS-Inertial OEM boards plus an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) in a compact form factor. The combined technology allows system integrators to add precise multi-frequency GNSS positioning and inertial data capabilities to their systems to...More>>

Septentrio’s AsteRxi processes high-quality GNSS measurements with IMU measurements to generate an enhanced integrated position. The all-in-view dual-frequency GPS/GLONASS receiver provides precise positioning in shadowed environments where GNSS-only receivers fail. Attitude information such as...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>>