March 30, 2017
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GPS Budget Outlook Appears Solid
 
With two federal budgets in play simultaneously, defense spending increases being proposed from multiple directions and a looming government shutdown it's easy to lose track of where things stand with GPS funding. ( more)
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Satellite navigation signals from space are precariously weak and can easily be blocked, damaged, or compromised by a growing array of threats - including solar activity, man-made interference, malicious faking of GPS signals, and the manipulation of position and timing information. As we come to rely more and more on GNSS signals and data across a wide range of industries, understanding and mitigating against these threats will become a critical risk management activity for manufacturers, systems and applications providers, and end-users. 
 
Ligado Plans GPS Augmentation Service 
Ligado, which has been in a standoff with the GPS community over interference issues for more than six years, is developing a new high-precision location (HPL) augmentation system for GPS.  ( more)
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Ellipse roll & pitch accuracy has improved by a factor of two (now 0.1° on all sensors), new accelerometers tolerate very high vibration environments (up to 8g), Galileo has been added to the Ellipse-N.   
GSA, Eutelsat Contract Marks Major Milestone for EGNOS V3  
With expectations including the delivery of better accuracy and improved resilience to EGNOS performance, there's plenty of excitement surrounding the development of EGNOS V3. ( more)
China's domestically produced satellite navigation system BeiDou has made significant progress in terms of its accuracy, according to reports out of China earlier this month. At a recent press conference, BeiDou engineers claimed that a new accurate positioning chip can now help users arrive at their destinations with an error margin of just one to two meters. ( more)
Earlier this month, researchers at the University of Bath in England announced findings indicating for the first time that turbulence does not take place within the Northern Lights and instead that unknown mechanisms are responsible for the outages of GNSS. This research concludes that new technology can be developed to overcome these outages from the Northern Lights, also known as aurora borealis. ( more)
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