 | Airborne Receivers: How Hard Can It Be?
January 18, 2012
Article By: Tony Murfin As the GNSS world starts to appreciate the era of multiple global constellations, it’s probably worth considering the impact on aircraft navigation, GNSS airborne receivers and what these changes might soon bring to those who develop and use GNSS for airborne en-route navigation and approaches....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>> |
 | Septentrio: A European Success Story
November 16, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin When Europe decided to pursue first EGNOS and then Galileo, two overriding incentives pushed the decision makers over the edge and into multi-year funding of very significant GNSS projects. The primary motivation was to ensure that satellite navigation capability was under European "sovereign"...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>> |
 | IFEN's Growing GNSS Portfolio
October 26, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin When I first heard of IFEN, it was a competitor on the EGNOS and Galileo programs that NovAtel was trying to get into. Each ITT (Intention To Tender) that our team in Calgary bid on, we were to be weighed against what IFEN or Septentrio had proposed. NovAtel did eventually capture its first study...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>> |
 | Excitement at ION
September 28, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin During the Institute of Navigation Satellite Division conference (ION GNSS 2011), I may have made a major mistake by being dragged kicking and screaming into the controversy that dominated its opening days. Excitement can be a relative term — if the sheer panic, and doom and gloom of what appears...More>> |
 | Doing GNSS Business in China
August 25, 2011
Article By: Tony Murfin China represents a huge potential market for Western GNSS companies, even though the country has a strong and growing GNSS capability of its own. Before booking a flight to Shanghai or Beijing, however, some careful preliminary research will likely pay off: looking for potential Chinese industry...More>> |
 | Expert Advice: Who Won?
August 1, 2011
Article By: Logan Scott Thousands of man hours and millions of dollars later, we finally have the 975-page GPS Technical Working Group (TWG) report, confirming what five minutes of back-of-the-envelope calculation predicted. Hooray for our side, good job GPS Industry Council; we’ve won the war and the foe is vanquished,...More>> |
