The first drone of Europe’s U-space TRACE project took its maiden flight Sept. 23. It carried an EGNOS-enabled beacon that allows the identification of the aircraft while guaranteeing accurate, robust positioning. The drone lifted off at the ATLAS experimental flight center in Jaén, Spain, an aerodrome equipped for flight tests with unmanned aircraft systems. The Regional Minister for Economic Transformation,... read more
The Port of Long Beach, California, is moving up and down because it sits on fault blocks that move like pistons due to subsidence caused by oil extraction. To accurately keep track of these movements, the port’s surveyors use GNSS receivers that receive corrections from continuously operating reference stations (CORS) operated by the port and by the City of Long... read more
The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a contract to London-based CGI to develop a GNSS Event Notification Service (GENS) capable of monitoring the United Kingdom (U.K.) GNSS spectrum to enable effective alerting and reporting of position, navigation and time (PNT) disruption. GENS will integrate CGI’s PNT Incident Event Monitoring (PNTIEM) system with existing U.K.-developed sensors from Ordnance Survey’s network... read more
Emcore Corp.’s EN-300 FOG (fiber optic gyro) inertial measurement unit (IMU) is now in high-rate production and is broadly available for purchase with 12-week lead times. The EN-300 was announced in April. Based in Alhambra, California, Emcore providees advanced mixed-signal products that serve the aerospace, defense and broadband communications markets. Emcore’s EN-300 offers up to 10 times the bias performance... read more
Quantum Reversal has added several new models to its flagship anti-jamming line. The company introduced in February the QR100 L1/L2 GPS anti-jamming unit and the QR101 L1/L2 GPS anti-jamming antenna. The current solution consists now of five products designed for the commercial market to solve the issue of unintentional RF interference or jamming: QR100 – GPS dual frequency L1/L2 anti-jamming... read more
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