June 2015
Watching over alpine explorers
...Austria and provides an effective, coordinated satellitebased operations control system for rescue forces operating in the alpine region. The system is based on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) for positioning and navigation. Terrestrial and...
August 2016
Our changing world and the mounting risk of a calamitous solar storm
.... This is a very real cosmic danger that could knock out our electric power grids, kill key satellite systems for communications and navigation and defence. This cosmic menace could knock out the time synchronization...
October 2019
Space-based cybersecurity challenges for NATO
... forces vulnerable to attacks. In 2002, the EU initiated a European alternative to GPS, which is one of four existing Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). At the core of Galileo lies a European strategic determination to create a stand-alone...
October 2025
High-altitude platforms - the search for an optimised legal framework
... user input to receipt of server response. Compared to the 70 millisecond latency associated with low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite systems like OneWeb, HAPS promises latency times of a few milliseconds (ms). This stands to benefit uses as diverse...
November 2025
Vantage Vigil - Europe’s first operational space weather mission nears approval
... a ‘Carrington-level’ event today could cost the UK alone over £1 billion per day in lost Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) services. “We’re investing £160 million in Vigil because resilience starts with foresight – and right now we are...
08 January 2023
GPS
... reading, chapter notes and an index. Much to its credit, it even includes a chapter on ‘European, Russian and other satellite systems’. I can imagine that the entire series of more than 30 books looks good on any serious reader’s bookshelves...
