Registration open for 35th Space Symposium

November 27, 2018

Registration has opened for the 35th Space Symposium, sponsored by the Space Foundation and taking place April 8-11 […]

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NASA program for UAVs in cities turns to NextNav

November 13, 2018

NextNav’s Metropolitan Beacon System (MBS) service has been accepted for use by NASA. NASA will use NextNav’s MBS network […]

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How we might navigate on Mars

October 9, 2018

Researchers from NASA’s Frontier Development Lab (FDL) and Intel are proposing a way to navigate on a new […]

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PNT Board to discuss spectrum issues in public teleconference

July 30, 2018

The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing Advisory Board (PNT Board) will take part in a public teleconference […]

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The 1893 Orlando Ferguson map imagines Antarctica as a wall of ice around the world. (Image: Library of Congress/2011594831)

Using GPS to disprove flat Earth theories

July 9, 2018

Thoughts on the Spherically Challenged Did you know Australia doesn’t exist? (Sorry, Aussies.) The entire continent is part […]

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A re-configurable NASA receiver called the Space Communications and Navigation Testbed, SCaN is attached to the exterior of the ISS. In April 2018 the chest-sized SCaN, seen left of centre with an antenna on top, was used to make the first combined Galileo-GPS positioning fix in orbit. (Photo: NASA)

Combined orbital Galileo-GPS position fix achieved aboard ISS

July 2, 2018

A combined Galileo–GPS positioning fix has been achieved in space — aboard the International Space Station — through an ESA–NASA collaboration.

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NASA completes third phase of UAS airspace testing

March 26, 2018

The Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) and its NASA Unmanned Traffic Management (UTM) partners flew multiple unmanned […]

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PNT Roundup: Exploring X-ray navigation in space

February 19, 2018

A team of engineers at the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has demonstrated fully autonomous X-ray […]

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