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| January 23, 2014 |
 India to launch three navigation satellites this year New Delhi (XNA) Jan 22, 2014 - India is to launch three navigation satellites this year, a senior official of the state- owned space agency has reportedly said. "Three satellites belonging to the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) constellation will be launched by the space agency this year," the Scientific Secretary of the Indian Space Research Organization, V. Koteshwara Rao, was quoted by the media a ... more |  |
 World's Lowest Profile Active and Passive Antennas Raleigh NC (SPX) Jan 22, 2014 - Telit Wireless Solutions and Parsec Technologies have announced that a combination of the companies' technologies results in the world's lowest profile companion solution for GPS receiver and antenna. For host devices able to accommodate higher volumetric symmetry, assembly of the components can be made to fit a 6x16x8mm volume. A flat component arrangement can yield an ultra-low-profile v ... more |  |
NGC Wins Contract For GPS-Challenged Navigation and Geo-Registration Solution Woodland Hills CA (SPX) Jan 21, 2014 - Northrop Grumman has been awarded a phase three navigation system related contract from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to continue improving geo-registration accuracy for positioning and pointing applications, even in GPS-denied conditions. In the first two phases of the Maintain Accurate Geo-registration via Image-nav Compensation (MAGIC) program, Northrop Grumman integrated geo-r ... more |  |
 Endangered Indian snow leopards to be tracked by GPS Shimla, India (AFP) Jan 22, 2014 - Six snow leopards in the icy Indian state of Himachal Pradesh will be fitted with satellite-linked collars in a project aimed at deepening understanding of the endangered mountain cat, wildlife officials said Wednesday. The $40,450 project will help the state wildlife department study the movement of the snow leopards in the Himalayas where climate change and human settlements are affecting ... more |  |
 Novel technology reveals aerodynamics of birds flying in a V-formation London, UK (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - Researchers using custom-built GPS and accelerometer loggers, developed with funding from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, (EPSRC), and attached to free-flying birds on migration, have gained ground-breaking insights into the mysteries of bird flight formation. The research, led by the Royal Veterinary College, University of London, proves for the first time that bir ... more |  |
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20th Anniversary of Initial Operational Capability of the GPS Constellation El Segundo CA (SPX) Jan 20, 2014 - The Global Positioning System (GPS) Directorate celebrated the 20th Anniversary of achieving Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for GPS Dec. 8, 2013. In 1973, the Navstar Global Positioning System Joint Program Office (JPO), headed by then-Colonel Bradford Parkinson, developed the GPS architecture and initiated efforts to field a prototype system to prove the concept of space-based globa ... more |  |
 Big year for European space activities: ESA Paris (AFP) Jan 17, 2014 - Europe will expand its space presence this year through missions with a more practical application for Earthlings - notably the Galileo constellation of navigation satellites, the European Space Agency (ESA) said Friday. Six Galileo satellites should be launched this year, the 50th anniversary of Europe's space exploration programme, ESA Director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain told journalist ... more |  |
 5,900 natural gas leaks discovered under Washington, D.C. Durham NC (SPX) Jan 17, 2014 - than 5,893 leaks from aging natural gas pipelines have been found under the streets of Washington, D.C. by a research team from Duke University and Boston University. A dozen of the leaks could have posed explosion risks, the researchers said. Some manholes had methane concentrations as high as 500,000 parts per million of natural gas - about 10 times greater than the threshold at which explosio ... more |  |
 Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System Surpasses 100,000 Combat Flight Hours Herndon VA (SPX) Jan 16, 2014 - Northrop Grumman's Hunter Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS), in use with the U.S. Army since 1996, recently surpassed 100,000 combat flight hours in service. The MQ-5B Hunter, which is currently deployed supporting contingency operations across the globe, provides warfighters with state-of-the-art reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition (RSTA), communications relay and weapons delivery. ... more |  |
Northrop Grumman and Trex Enterprises to Introduce Celestial Navigation to Soldier Precision Targeting Laser Systems Apopka FL (SPX) Jan 09, 2014 - Northrop Grumman has announced an agreement to collaborate with Trex Enterprises Corporation to bring celestial navigation technology to the precision targeting capability provided to the U.S. military and allied forces. Trex Enterprises has developed and matured the core technology for providing a highly accurate celestial navigation subsystem for use in military products and scientific a ... more |  |
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GPS Traffic Maps for Leatherback Turtles Show Hotspots to Prevent Accidental Fishing Deaths Philadelphia PA (SPX) Jan 12, 2014 - The leatherback turtle in the Pacific Ocean is one of the most endangered animals in the world. Its population has declined by more than 90 percent since 1980. One of the greatest sources of mortality is industrial longlines that set thousands of hooks in the ocean to catch fish, but sometimes catch sea turtles as well. Using modern GPS technology, researchers are now able to predict where fishe ... more |  |
 Land bulge clue to aviation threat from volcanoes Paris (AFP) Jan 12, 2014 - Bulging in land that occurs before a volcano erupts points to how much ash will be spewed into the sky, providing a useful early warning for aviation, geologists in Iceland said on Sunday. The telltale came from data from Global Positioning System (GPS) sensors placed around the notorious Icelandic volcano Grimsvoetn, they said. Just before Grimsvoetn blew its stack in May 2011, the grou ... more |  |
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 Earth may be heaver than thought due to invisible belt of dark matter Arlington, Texas (UPI) Jan 06, 2013 - A study of GPS satellite orbits suggests the Earth is heavier than thought, perhaps due to a halo of dark matter, a U.S. researcher says. Dark matter is thought to make up about 80 per cent of the universe's matter, but scientists have been unable to determine much else about it, including its presence in the solar system. In 2009, researchers at the Institute of Advanced Studies ... more |  |
 Two Solar Flares Say Goodbye 2013 and Welcome 2014 Greenbelt MD (SPX) Jan 03, 2014 - The sun ushered out 2013 and welcomed 2014 with two mid-level flares on Dec. 31, 2013 and Jan. 1, 2014. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation. Harmful radiation from a flare cannot pass through Earth's atmosphere to physically affect humans on the ground, however - when intense enough - they can disturb the atmosphere in the layer where GPS and communications signals travel. ... more |  |
China to upgrade homegrown GPS to improve accuracy Beijing (UPI) Dec 30, 2013 - China says it will have 30 satellites in its Beidou navigation system by 2020 to improve accuracy to within inches to better compete with the U.S.GPS. The Beidou network, with 16 satellites serving the Asia-Pacific region, currently has an accuracy of about 15 feet but Chinese officials say they want to upgrade it to compete with the U.S. global positioning system, the most widely used ... more |  |
US bans Russia's GLONASS for spying fears Moscow (Voice of Russia) Dec 31, 2013 - The United States does not want GLONASS stations on its territory. Americans are afraid that Russia's GLONASS global satellite navigation system might be used to spy on the US. No official ban has been imposed, but the new requirements that have been put forward now make the deployment of ground-based tracking stations next to impossible. The 2014 defense bill signed by President Barack Ob ... more |  |
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