by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Kudo’s to MARAD for posting this. Getting info out about GPS problems is not their job. We have had a hard time getting this kind of info to be made public. The statement they were allowed to publish, in typical governmentese, says...
by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: The last two administrations (G.W. Bush and Obama) promised Congress they would build eLoran systems to serve as a complement and backup for GPS. Bush Administration Announcement Obama Administration Announcement Despite these promises...
by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: The nation relies heavily on vulnerable space assets, including GPS. The Department of Homeland Security has called GPS “a single point of failure for critical infrastructure.” We hope our leaders begin to consider that the best...
by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: Space launches are on the upswing with over 12,000 new satellites scheduled to go into orbit in the next several years. Most launches will put multiple satellites in space, but that still leaves lots of rockets making holes in the ionosphere....
by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
The US Coast Guard has announced termination of the nation’s remaining Differential GPS (DGPS) transmissions beginning in September of this year. The first phase of DGPS decommissioning was announced in 2016. In response, a group of congressmen wrote to the...
by Editor | Mar 30, 2018 | Blog
Blog Editor’s Note: We understand from developers that autonomous cars will be able to use wheel counters, hyper-fine maps, Lidar, cameras, and other sensors to find there way when GPS/GNSS is not available. Space disruptions are still likely to impact them,...
