Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The Indy Autonomous Challenge Powered by Cisco (IAC) will be livestreamed on Amazon Web Services (AWS), October 23 for viewers worldwide.
By Inside GNSS
NextNav and Satelles, Inc. have partnered on an alternative positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) testbed in the San Francisco Bay Area. Designed and managed by NextNav with a timing source from Satelles, the testbed creates scenarios and conditions to rigorously test the precision and resilience of alternative PNT solutions
By Inside GNSS
The European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) has published an online interactive world map providing information about augmentation service providers that support Galileo. Clicking over each country shows the names of the Galileo-ready providers along with the name of the service, type of service and coverage.
By Inside GNSS
Profound Positioning Inc., a provider of navigation and positioning software, announced its Instant Vehicle Tracking (IVT) solution, using GNSS and multi-sensor fusion to achieve decimeter-level accuracy in a cost-effective solution for safer, more efficient driving.
By Inside GNSS
The fastest driverless speeds yet achieved will occur during the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC) on October 23. The autonomous competition will award a $1.5 million grand prize for the most successful R&D team that programs their driverless, GNSS-, inertial- and multisensor-equipped racecar to clock the fastest fifty-mile distance around the legendary Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
By Inside GNSS
Xona Space Systems announced that completion of a new funding round will support the company’s first orbital mission, scheduled for mid-2022, to demonstrate the capabilities of its Pulsar precision low-Earth orbit (LEO) PNT service, an independent high-performance satellite navigation and timing system designed to meet the needs of intelligent systems.
By Inside GNSS
Tallysman Wireless Inc. has added its first full-band GNSS antenna to its line of helical antennas. The HC990E embedded helical antenna is designed for precise positioning, covering the GPS/QZSS-L1/L2/L5, QZSS-L6, GLONASS-G1/G2/G3, Galileo-E1/E5a/E5b/E6, BeiDou-B1/B2/B2a/B3, and NavIC-L5 frequency bands
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The parent company of retail giant Ikea put nearly $16.5 million into location technology from What3words to improve urban deliveries in cities. The What3words solution is also expected to provide accuracy for new delivery by drones and autonomous vehicles.
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Honeywell and InfiniDome are collaborating on a GPS signal-protection systems and showcasing a preliminary version of their joint solution at the AUVSI Xponential Show in Atlanta, Aug. 16-19.
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Chisha, that’s who. China’s first robot for assembling building components rolled off the production line in Nantong City in east China’s Jiangsu Province, according to the Science and Technology Daily.
By Inside GNSS
Situational awareness and risk assessment are key to UAV mission planning in both dense urban areas and, surprisingly, in open-sky areas such as over ocean coastlines. Successful results depend closely upon scheduling for the most advantageous hours, or even minutes, to overfly particular areas.
By Inside GNSS
Swift Navigation of San Francisco and Tokyo-based KDDI Corporation, a telecommunications company have partnered to bring precise positioning to the Japanese market.
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Maxtena, Inc. introduced a small, patented GNSS antenna for high precision and autonomous multi-frequency applications. The M9HCT-A-SMA antenna is a high accuracy, multi-frequency active helix GNSS antenna + L-band corrections services.
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