PNT solution with 5G and LTE signals
NextNav has has successfully tested its positioning and timing solution that combines the company’s assured PNT TerraPoiNT system with existing LTE and 5G network signals. The test, which took place in and around San Jose, California, demonstrates how TerraPoiNT signals can …

NASA to acquire Synthetic Aperture Radar Data from ICEYE
ICEYE US has won a contract under a Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) with NASA announced earlier this year. The contract enables NASA to acquire ICEYE’s synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) data for evaluation by scientific and academic communities to determine …

New Galileo station goes on duty
Galileo’s ground segment has gained a new asset, the Telemetry, Tracking and Control (TT&C) facility — a 13.5-m parabola dish mounted on top of a 10-m high building structure of made of steel and concrete. It is based within Europe’s launch site in …

IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model
IBM and open-source AI platform Hugging Face has announced that IBM’s watsonx.ai geospatial foundation model – built from NASA’s satellite data – will be available on Hugging Face. It will be the largest geospatial foundation model and …

Drone security solutions for civil airports
Aircraft are designed to withstand the impact of a small number of small birds entering the engines or colliding with the fuselage or windows. However, the unauthorized launch of large birds or, even worse, metallic electronic drones near airports can cause serious …

Terra Office Workflow and ArcGIS Pro integration
Trimble has released Terra Office add-in for Esri ArcGIS Pro. It is a new product in Trimble’s Terra Office suite of desktop solutions for integrating Trimble TerraFlex® field data collection software with GIS systems of record.
With a streamlined user interface, the …

SHI tests autonomous navigation system on container ship
Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) has claimed an industry first with the verification of its autonomous navigation technology on a container ship sailing between South Korea and Taiwan.
The company installed its remote autonomous navigation system (SAS) and smart …

EgSA & Chinese LASAC Collaboration
The CEO of the Egyptian Space Agency(EgSA), Dr Sherif Sedky, has formally entered into a MoU with the Chinese Land Satellite Remote Sensing Application Centre (LASAC). The primary objective of this agreement is to enhance Egypt’s access to remote sensing data, providing valuable …

Industry invited to bid for low-Earth orbit satnav demo
While GNSS will remain a fundamental backbone, for Positioning, Navigation and Timing (PNT) services to go on improving into the future, a new element will be required. ESA’s LEO-PNT satellites, approved at last year’s Ministerial conference, will test out this concept in practice, …

Saudi Arabia charts the first-ever coastal tourism map of Red Sea
Tourists traveling to The Red Sea Project can expect better mobility and accessibility options as Saudi authorities are developing the Kingdom’s first geographical navigation map that charts the scope of marine tourism in the coastal area.
The …