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...
October 2020
Essential role of satellites in disaster and pandemic management
... has helped in capacity building. Global Positioning System (GPS) services were mastered during the Ebola outbreak to keep...Vehicles, location-based social media platforms and other GPS applications in the surveillance, monitoring and mitigation of ...
