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Stockholm — Pendulum Instruments, an Orolia Group company, has introduced a combined GPS and GLONASS controlled frequency standard designated GPS-12RG. The frequency standard combines the two major ...

NextNav, based in Reston, Virginia, has trialed the 5G system in a lab earlier this year and is currently awaiting a decision ...

Have you ever sent your location to somebody and then realized you’re a few buildings away from the marker on the map? Well, that’s exactly what Xiaomi aims to fix with dual frequency GPS receivers on ...

One expert says the federal government needs to develop a secondary system to avoid a disaster in the event the GPS system ...

ARE WE THERE? In a multi-GNSS world, that is. We’ve asked that question from time to time in this column over the years. So, are we there yet? That depends. One definition of “multi” is more than one.

FIGURE 1. Low-cost single-frequency receivers collecting GPS+BDS data for single-baseline RTK, with patch antennas (left) and survey-grade antennas (right) on Jan. 4–6 and Jan. 6–8, 2016, respectively ...

WASHINGTON - New test results show that a proposed nationwide wireless broadband network would produce significant interference with GPS systems used for everything from aviation to high-precision ...

The problem is that a cell base station would be many orders of magnitude more powerful to a terrestrial observer than a GPS signal. It doesn't take much to raise the noise floor too high to pull in a ...

While we pegged the Xiaomi Mi 8 as a contentious smartphone for its aesthetic design, the handset’s internals are far more interesting. It’s not just that the phone’s hardware brings a lot of value to ...