by Editor | Mar 19, 2025 | Blog
Image: RNT Foundation What’s new: While visiting Ragusa, Italy, we discovered a way of marking the hours of the day we had not heard of before – Italic hours which count the number of hours since the last sunset. Why it’s important: Timekeeping has...
by Editor | Mar 17, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: A report that GPS-enabled terrain warning saved the lives of 190 airline passengers on the 2nd of February. Why it’s important: This incident shows how important these safety systems are, and the criticality of them working...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2025 | Blog
Image: Aftermath of collision between Portuguese-flagged container ship Solong and oil tanker Stena Immaculate chartered to U.S. Navy. Source – social media via CNN UPDATE: An AIS reconstruction of the Solong/Stena Immaculate collision seems to show no GPS...
by Editor | Mar 14, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock What’s new: The organization Public Policy Polling surveyed 1,133 registered voters about the need for a backup system for GPS. Despite using a series of VERY leading questions in an attempt to persuade voters of the need, less than half of...
by Editor | Mar 13, 2025 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Just a reminder that it’s not only the Russians and Chinese. Every nation practices electronic warfare. Every nation needs a PNT architecture that is as robust and resilient as possible to guard its population against tactical and strategic...
