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Septentrio offers GNSS/INS single-antenna receiver

July 17, 2019

High-precision GPS/INS receiver is now available with a single-antenna option for faster integration, lighter weight and lower power […]

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Age of acceptance: Retirement communities embrace driverless shuttles

July 16, 2019

Two companies have integrated GPS/PNT tech into a growing autonomous vehicle market: driverless shuttles for retirement communities. Powering […]

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This article is tagged with autonomous test drive, autonomous vehicles, Duro, Piksi Multi, retirees, self-driving car, Skylark, Swift Navigation, The Villages, Voyage and posted in Featured Stories, From the Magazine, Transportation

Galileo’s Ground Mission Segment in the Fucino Control Centre in Italy oversees Galileo navigation services and satellite payload operations. Photo: Telespazio.

Galileo’s initial services rocky patch continues

July 15, 2019

The Galileo signal outage, ongoing since Thursday, July 11, has been attributed to a problem with the system’s […]

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Galileo Control Center. Photo: GSA

Galileo down over weekend

July 14, 2019

The entire Galileo system suffered an unexpected and hitherto unexplained signal outage, beginning on Thursday, July 11 at […]

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Live from the 2019 ION Joint Navigation Conference and Esri User Conference

July 11, 2019

The GPS World staff reported live from the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) 2019 Joint Navigation Conference, which took […]

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Artist’s concept of NASA’s Magnetospheric Multiscale mission consists of four identically equipped observatories that rely on Navigator GPS to maintain an exacting orbit that is at its highest point nearly half-way to the Moon. (Image: NASA)

NASA wants to use GPS at the Moon for Artemis missions

July 11, 2019

News from NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center GPS could be used to pilot in and around lunar orbit […]

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This article is tagged with Artemis mission, Goddard Space Flight Center, GPS receiver, lunar navigation, Magnetospheric Multiscale mission, MMS, moon, NASA, NavCube, space navigation and posted in Featured Stories, GNSS, Latest News

Diamond Aircraft airport runway, Camera image of the research project C2Land of the Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Technische Universität Braunschweig. Photo copyright TUM.

Aircraft lands autonomously without ground assistance

July 9, 2019

A German research team successfully demonstrated a completely autonomous airplane landing in May, without assistance from any ground-based […]

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Second GPS III satellite encapsulated for July 25 launch

July 8, 2019

The second next-generation GPS III satellite — nicknamed “Magellan” by the U.S. Air Force — is encapsulated and […]

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