13 March 2015
ESA re-entry vehicle could pave way for reusable launcher
... degrees west longitude — the IXV will perform a series of banking maneuvers to slow down, using inertial and GPS navigation to aim for the landing point. The rolls are similar to maneuvers used by re-entering space shuttles...
08 July 2015
James Yoder’s Stuff in Space: what orbits Earth in real time & the problem of junk
... Library. Even a relative space novice, someone who doesn’t know what the difference between Glonass and GPS is, is immediately struck by just how things have gotten around Earth after decades of human space activity. As space...
23 May 2016
Soyuz’ latest mission for Europe ready for launch tomorrow
... 20 years of operations. The Galileo system is also planned to be fully compatible with the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS satellites, and when combined, the two signals will give users better timing and positioning accuracy...
25 May 2016
Successful liftoff for Soyuz
... Europe to provide a highly accurate global positioning service that will also be inter-operable with GLONASS and GPS, the two other global satellite navigation systems. Yesterday’s double launch means that the Galileo programme...
26 January 2018
NASA launches GOLD to study Earth-space boundary
... can also occur in as little as an hour. As communication signals, like radio waves and signals that make our GPS systems work, also travel through the ionosphere, understanding the dynamics of this region is therefore critical given...
20 June 2018
Trump officially calls for the creation of US “space force”
...to oversee the command of the military's existing satellite systems such as reconnaissance satellites, missile-warning systems, GPS and communications platforms, however, with the US military and intelligence agencies increasingly concerned about the...
