From Hong Kong to Berlin, from Sydney to New York, the operations of hospitals, airlines, banks, and scores of other businesses and services were disrupted on July 19 due to a glitch in a software update issued by the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike.
Now that positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) data have become essential to the functioning of critical infrastructure, it is imperative that we use “all available means” to maintain and improve that data’s accuracy, integrity, availability, continuity and coverage.
Nearly all satellites are highly vulnerable to cyberattacks, ground- or space-based lasers, high-powered microwaves, the debris field from a destroyed satellite and the radiation produced by a nuclear explosion in space.
In the coming months, we will steadily increase our coverage of complementary PNT companies, products and services, including those based on low Earth-orbiting (LEO) satellites, because they are an increasingly important component of the PNT industry.
In one way or another, GNSS is constantly in the news, even though it rarely makes the headlines. Three recent articles prove this point.
On Jan.11, speaking at a press briefing in Paris, Javier Benedicto, director of navigation for the ESA, announced the agency had completed the procurement process for the low-Earth Orbit Positioning Navigation and Timing (LEO PNT) program.
Every day, the FAA monitors and assists more than 45,000 flights — up to 5,000 at any one time — across the more than 29 million square miles that make up the U.S. National Airspace System (NAS).
At a reception hosted by the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation to celebrate GPS’ 50th anniversary, I had the honor of publicly interviewing Dr. Bradford Parkinson, the original architect of GPS.
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