The European Space Agency (ESA) has selected Rocket Lab Corporation to launch a dedicated Electron mission, marking the first time the company will deploy satellites for ESA’s next-generation ...

A bit of history Let’s go back to the Cold War era, at a time when Soviet and Western states were continuously battling for electronic warfare (EW) superiority. In the early to mid-Cold War, radar ...

The box titled “Summary of Overall fit of Geoid18” provides a summary of the fit of residuals of Geoid18 from the NGS GEOID18 technical details document. Looking at the CONUS overall values, the ...

You may have heard about “NMEA data” with respect to GPS. NMEA is an acronym for the National Marine Electronics Association. NMEA existed well before GPS was invented. According to the NMEA website, ...

About the Author: Eric Gakstatter Eric Gakstatter has been involved in the GPS/GNSS industry for more than 20 years. For 10 years, he held several product management positions in the GPS/GNSS industry ...

Clocks are at the heart of GPS. Advances in space-qualified atomic clocks that kept time to within 10 nanoseconds over a day were a key development that made GPS possible. It turns out that GPS must ...

“National PNT Office: establish a National PNT Office in the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology to improve resilience and drive growth with responsibility for PNT policy, coordination, ...

All GLONASS satellites launched since December 2005 have been GLONASS-M satellites with the exception of two GLONASS-K1 (sometimes referred to as just GLONASS-K) satellites, launched on Feb. 26, 2011, ...

The Dunhuang long-wave timing station, a critical component of China’s high-precision ground-based timing system, has been completed and tested. This marks a significant advancement in China’s ...

The main critical applications for GNSS timing can be roughly grouped by the accuracy they require — but they are changing. “For example, for cellular systems up to 30 ns jitter used to be enough,” ...

Timing from atomic clocks is now an integral part of data-center operations. The atomic clock time transmitted via Global Position System (GPS) and other Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) ...

About the Author: Oleksandr Odukha Oleksandr Odukha is the Senior Vice President, Delivery and Mobility at Intellias. With more than a decade of delivering solutions to large enterprise clients, ...