by Editor | Dec 27, 2021 | Blog
Image: Netflix/Youtube The 1997 James Bond film “Tomorrow Never Dies” the evil-doer spoofs GPS and lures a British warship into violating Chinese territorial waters sparking an international incident in which the ship and a pair of Chinese fighter jets are...
by Editor | Dec 24, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Yet another government report detailing bad things that will happen because of our foolish over reliance on GPS for timing. We understand, by the way, that in the terms of this report a “long lasting” GPS outage would be “24...
by Editor | Dec 23, 2021 | Blog
Image: Shutterstock Blog Editor’s Note: This item about Qualcomm is part of the recent buzz about the possibilities of using 5G for location services. Lots of potential there, we are sure. Yet our telecommunications system has a critical dependency on...
by Editor | Dec 21, 2021 | Blog
One of our members spied this for sale. What a great, useful, and inexpensive gift for the holidays! And we are glad to see that it is “Made of environmentally friendly materials.” We are not sure about the “will not cause harm to people”...
by Editor | Dec 17, 2021 | Blog
Image: UK Merchant Marine Ensign – Shutterstock Blog Editor Note: We thought GPS week rollover problems were all done with… Passing this along as part of our public education and “protecting GPS/GNSS users” missions. Guidance Safety...
by Editor | Dec 16, 2021 | Blog
Image: XinhuaNet Blog Editor’s Note: The below article got us thinking again about how a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) is an instrument of national influence and power. In addition to being a very useful tool for a nation’s civil and military...
