by Editor | Aug 14, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: Interesting article on some space-based services with the potential to augment or offer an alternative to GPS/ GNSS. As we have said before, space-based systems offer things you can’t get from terrestrial and need...
by Editor | Aug 11, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: An excellent article by RNTF member Diana Furchtgott-Roth. Diana is a professor at GWU and previously served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation. Diana is right on target. But we...
by Editor | Aug 10, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: The author is President of the RNT Foundation. This article was written a month or so ago when the newsletter was in preparation. Since then the infrastructure bill has been formulated in the Senate without any mention, so...
by Editor | Aug 8, 2021 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: We are seeing more and more about ASATs in the press these days. “Nesting doll” satellites with weapons inside, “kamikazee” satellites to crash into others – both courtesy of Moscow. Satellites with robo-arms...
by Editor | Aug 7, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: We are including two reports of the same event in this post. Several things of note. GPS is included in this discussion of cyber vulnerabilities, as is the case more and more often. That is a great development because...
by Editor | Aug 6, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: Granted this article is in an outlet about space. So it talks about GPS and GNSS. The larger issue, though, is that “Modern civilization would be lost without PNT.” But, yes, we over-rely on GPS so much it is...