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Europe chooses Airbus for SMILE space weather satellite

August 9, 2019

The European Space Agency has chosen Airbus to build the European component of the SMILE (Solar wind Magnetosphere […]


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Consortium records scintillation on Galileo signals in Antarctica

July 5, 2017

At the end of 2016, the DemoGRAPE consortium observed, for the first time ever, ionospheric scintillations on Galileo […]


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An image illustrating the six orbital planes in which GPS satellites (“navigational satellites,” or ns) fly around Earth. This configuration shows the orbits just before the start of this solar cycle’s biggest geomagnetic storm, which occurred on March 17, 2015. The darkest orbital lines indicate the position of the satellites in that moment; the lightest lines indicate where they were 12 hours prior.(Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory)

GPS data release to boost space-weather science

January 30, 2017

Today, more than 16 years of space-weather data is publicly available for the first time in history. The […]


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Spirent’s GSS100D Detector, developed in collaboration with Nottingham Scientific Ltd, enables detection, characterization and analysis of real GNSS threats.

New Spirent Test Framework Evaluates Threats to GPS, GNSS

September 14, 2015

Spirent Communications has announced a Robust PNT Test Framework that evaluates GPS and GNSS security vulnerabilities for positioning, navigation […]


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Septentrio Offers Multi-Constellation Receiver for Space Weather Monitoring

April 14, 2014

The PolaRxS by Septentrio is a multi-frequency, multi-constellation receiver dedicated to ionospheric monitoring and space weather applications. It features […]


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GNSS Vulnerable: What to Do?

February 18, 2014

Too Much Sensitivity, Not Enough Robustness, Says Parkinson Brad Parkinson, the founding architect of GPS, told a UK […]


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Image of the sun on Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2014, from the Solar X-Ray Imager on NOAA's GOES satellite, taken just after the maximum emission of a solar flare. The eruption came from the middle of the sun and is directed toward Earth. This is the largest solar flare so far this year.

Blast from Sun Unsettles Earth’s Magnetic Field, but No Storming

January 13, 2014

Forecasters at NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center said the sun’s coronal mass ejection (CME) that reached Earth on […]


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The Halloween Storms: When Solar Events Spooked the Skies

October 30, 2013

Ten years ago, scientists watching the skies experienced a Halloween fright of cosmic proportions, when space weather degraded […]


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