Thales, a European leader in resilient navigation, announced a €55 million investment to expand its industrial sites in ...

Operational Anti-Jam Units With some images courtesy of my friends at Raytheon, let’s look at a few examples of deployed military CRPA hardware over the years. The GAS-1 system entered service in 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) ...

GNSS jamming is causing confusion for ships traveling through the Strait of Hormuz, reports gCaptain. The regional threat ...

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, ...

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 ...

About the Author: Dana Goward Dana Goward is president of the Resilient Navigation and Timing Foundation. He is the proprietor at Maritime Governance LLC. In August 2013, he retired from the federal ...

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 baseline orbit of the Genesis satellite will be circular, will have an altitude of about 6,000 kilometers and an inclination of about 95 degrees. The mass of the satellite will be on the order of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tools for measuring distances have been around for centuries. The Egyptians are famous for their “rope stretchers,” while early surveyors in Europe and the New Colonies were known to use the Gunter’s ...