Tuesday, January 25th, 2011
TMicroelectronics today introduced Teseo II, a new generation of single-chip stand-alone positioning receivers for Portable Navigation Devices, in-car navigation and telematics applications. These Systems-on-Chips are the industry's first monolithic devices capable of receiving signals from multiple satellite...
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
ESA’s GIOVE-A satellite – the first prototype of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system – is still working well after five years in space. The first ‘Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element’, GIOVE-A, was launched on 28 December 2005 by a...
Saturday, October 6th, 2007
Ambitious European plans to bring the Galileo satellite navigation system into operation by 2010 seem unlikely to succeed. Authorities in the EU bureaucracies are now offering 2013 as the earliest likely date. A meeting of...
Friday, March 16th, 2007
Topcon Positioning Systems recently released its GR-3 GNSS receiver - the first to make use of Topcon's new G3 technology. G3 technology is designed for triple-constellation tracking. The receiver can be used with satellites of both the GPS...