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 ...

Safran Electronics & Defense has introduced BlackNaute, a new autonomous positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) system.

Recent changes in hardware and standards make one-meter accuracy possible, in some cases as soon as this year. The transcript of a talk given to Android developers earlier this year, this article ...

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, ...

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 ...

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) ...

On May 21 this year, a government affairs article in Shaanxi’s “The Paper” announced accelerated construction in Xi’an of a science center. Its centerpiece will be the country’s High-precision ...

Locata’s core inventive step was the Time Lock loop invented by my partner, David Small. Any engineer is familiar with a frequency lock loop or a phase lock loop, which allows you to align either ...

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,” ...

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, ...

Figure 1: GPSJAM map on March 23, 2024. The map is based on GPS accuracy reports fron aircraft broadcast digital radio messages (ADS-B) over a 24-h period. A vast (uncolored) area on the globe is not ...