Monday, May 22nd, 2017
BEIJING (Xinhua) - The output value of China's satellite navigation and location-based service industry reached 211.8 billion yuan (30.8 billion U.S. dollars) in 2016, up 22.1 percent year on year, according to an industry white paper. Read...
Tuesday, May 24th, 2016
Almost 180 ground-based navigation aids and associated non-precision approach procedures will be withdrawn from service this week after Australia earlier this year moved to more accurate, mandated satellite navigation technology. Read More at Air Traffic Management
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2016
South Korea has revived a project to build a navigation system that would be difficult to hack after a recent wave of GPS signal jamming attacks it blamed on North Korea, officials said. Read More at ABC...
Monday, September 15th, 2014
The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division awarded Dr. Pratap Misra its Johannes Kepler Award on September 12, 2014 at the ION GNSS+ Conference (Tampa, Florida) for his contributions to satellite navigation education, the understanding of GLONASS,...
Thursday, May 29th, 2014
Roger Lee Easton, Sr., the father of GPS and pioneer of modern day navigation, died May 8 at his New Hampshire home, according to BusinessWire. Easton had the idea to put highly accurate clocks in multiple different satellites,...
Monday, May 26th, 2014
Russia's Economic Development Ministry on Friday signed an agreement to collaborate with Glonass to increase the satellite navigation firm's market share worldwide. The agreement, signed at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, will enable Glonass to receive "valuable, relevant and reliable information" about potential market opportunities,...
Tuesday, April 29th, 2014
Russia plans to make its Glonass satellite navigation system more competitive by constructing 50 new ground stations in 36 countries, a senior Kremlin official said Wednesday. The Glonass system was launched to provide Russia with its own navigation data for military and civilian applications, and to...
Friday, April 25th, 2014
Recent failures in Russia’s Glonass satellite-based global navigation system were caused by mathematical mistakes in software, the head of the Russian space agency said Thursday. Oleg Ostapenko said during a press conference that the programmers who had...
Thursday, January 9th, 2014
STMicroelectronics, a global semiconductor leader serving customers across the spectrum of electronics applications, announces Teseo III, a single-chip standalone positioning product family capable of receiving signals from multiple satellite navigation...
Thursday, November 28th, 2013
Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin issuing a task to inspect all navsat system infrastructure located in Russia (in other words, GPS infrastructure, as no other satnav system currently works), is raising red flags in the scientific...
