October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... for certain users within EU member states. When and if GPS fails to operate, Galileo is designed to provide civilian and ...signals and there is no agreement yet for Galileo to replace GPS in case of the latter’s failure. Intelligence, surveillance and...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
.... ADS-B can provide true situation awareness to pilots on manned aircraft It has been found through experiments that GPS is a better alternative for determination of altitude than barometric-based instruments. High rates of climb and descent diminish...
May 2021
Forecasting space-weather effects on Earth
... signals from radio navigation systems, such as GPS, causing degraded accuracy and impacting people who ...be simply unavailable. For example, one generally can’t obtain GPS signals underwater or underground. Thus the Earth’s geomagnetic field provides...
March 2016
From Sanctuary to Battlefield
...its dependence on the increasingly vulnerable Global Positioning System (GPS) constellation. While it makes sense to reduce the dependence ...metre diameter protective payload fairing. The GPS IIF system provides improved navigational accuracy through...
11 May 2018
Revolutionary X-Ray navigation system to be used on CubeSat mission
... Station Explorer for X-ray Timing and Navigation Technology, or SEXTANT, for short, works in a similar principle to how GPS works for people on Earth, but instead it uses X-rays from millisecond pulsars to accurately determine the location...
June 2015
Drone regulation in the European Union amid a thriving market
...fly fully-autonomously, with the flight controlled by sensors, GPS, and on-board computers performing as a sophisticated autopilot.... with a cross structure, 4 engines, 4 propellers, a GPS sensor, a flight control system and a digital map. Additionally...
