Canada, US workshops focus on PNT threats
Two workshops convened in recent weeks in the U.S. and Canadian capitals, respectively, sought to bring into focus looming threats to the nations’ positioning, navigation and timing capabilities and...
View ArticlePNT Advisory Board to hear Ligado plans
Ligado Networks will appear and present at the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Board’s (PNTAB) meeting on Nov. 15 in Southern California. Ligado and its predecessors...
View ArticleHorizon broad but troubled for 2018
It is the best of times, it is the worst of times. GPS modernization, once gasping for breath by the side of the track, is back in the race and pulling ahead. Relentless innovation in user equipment...
View ArticleGPS, surveyors and politics — a 2018 refresher
While not as glamorous as mild-mannered Clark Kent holding down a day job while Superman comes to the rescue in time of crisis, there are professional surveyors who work day jobs to perform our duties...
View ArticleNational PNT Engineering Forum rejects Ligado test results
An independent technical review published earlier this month found sufficient data in three government-conducted tests to assess the risk of using frequencies near the GPS band for a ground-based...
View ArticleSystem of Systems: The long life of GPS III
Late Breaking: Ligado On April 26, the U.S. Department of Transportation publicly released the long-awaited GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment. See the June issue of GPS World for an expert and...
View ArticleThe Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment: What it means and why it matters
The culmination of several years of test and analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the assessment will play a key role in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming...
View ArticleTrying to accommodate GPS interference? Enough already
Eight years on, and the money generated by a hedge fund still seeks to destabilize the Global Positioning System and the billions of people who benefit from it, whether they create it, administer it,...
View ArticleGPS interference concerns with Ligado remain unaddressed, experts say
Ligado’s proposed broadband service continues to pose a significant risk of harmful interference to GPS, several key signatories wrote in a July 18 letter to U.S. Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleTaking a look at the rest of the Ligado story
Alan CameronEditor-in-Chief and Publisher, GPS World “All the News that Fits” can sometimes be a hard motto to live up to, and it has turned out so this month. I want to get more material into our...
View ArticlePNT Board opposes Ligado ‘lite’ proposal, DARPA seeks photonics
On Aug. 10, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board, the government’s GPS expert board, sent a letter to the National Executive Committee for Space-Based PNT...
View ArticleNational PNT Engineering Forum rejects Ligado test results
An independent technical review published earlier this month found sufficient data in three government-conducted tests to assess the risk of using frequencies near the GPS band for a ground-based...
View ArticleSystem of Systems: The long life of GPS III
Late Breaking: Ligado On April 26, the U.S. Department of Transportation publicly released the long-awaited GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment. See the June issue of GPS World for an expert and...
View ArticleThe Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment: What it means and why it matters
The culmination of several years of test and analysis conducted by the U.S. Department of Transportation, the assessment will play a key role in the Federal Communications Commission’s upcoming...
View ArticleTrying to accommodate GPS interference? Enough already
Eight years on, and the money generated by a hedge fund still seeks to destabilize the Global Positioning System and the billions of people who benefit from it, whether they create it, administer it,...
View ArticleGPS interference concerns with Ligado remain unaddressed, experts say
Ligado’s proposed broadband service continues to pose a significant risk of harmful interference to GPS, several key signatories wrote in a July 18 letter to U.S. Federal Communications Commission...
View ArticleTaking a look at the rest of the Ligado story
Alan CameronEditor-in-Chief and Publisher, GPS World “All the News that Fits” can sometimes be a hard motto to live up to, and it has turned out so this month. I want to get more material into our...
View ArticlePNT Board opposes Ligado ‘lite’ proposal, DARPA seeks photonics
On Aug. 10, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board, the government’s GPS expert board, sent a letter to the National Executive Committee for Space-Based PNT...
View ArticleIridium asks FCC to remove ‘outdated’ rules
Iridium Satellite Communications Inc. filed comments to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Oct. 29 regarding outdated Ancillary Terrestrial Component (ATC) rules. The company,...
View ArticleParkinson questions long delay resolving Ligado issue
Tells Space Advisory group spectrum issues a concern for all Speaking to a gathering of space industry leaders, Dr. Brad Parkinson, the original chief architect for establishment of the Global...
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