Electronic Design6h
How RTK Can Help Autonomous Vehicles See the World
In the past decade, AV designers have relied on building high-definition (HD) maps ... satellite constellations, which ...
NISAR: The Powerful New Satellite That Will Track Earth’s Secret Shifts
NASA and ISRO's NISAR satellite aims to revolutionize our understanding of Earth's surface movements with frequent global ...
Starfish Space raises $29M to launch satellite-servicing spacecraft missions
Starfish Space has closed a new tranche of funding led by a major defense tech investor as it looks to launch three full-size ...
New Scientist1d
Millions of phones create most complete map ever of the ionosphere
Researchers mapped Earth’s ionosphere, part of the upper atmosphere, using signal data from 40 million phones – a method that ...
Popular Science1d
Google used millions of Android phones to map the worst enemy of GPS
In a paper published this week in Nature, Google researchers demonstrated they were able to use GPS signal measurements ...
New Scientist1d
Migratory birds can use Earth's magnetic field like a GPS
Eurasian reed warblers don’t just get a sense of direction from Earth’s magnetic field – they can also calculate their ...
Nature1d
Google uses millions of phones to map Earth’s ionosphere and improve GPS
When the air is partly ionized, freely moving electrons slightly slow down the radio signals travelling to Earth from GPS and ...
Space Force new GPS satellites are running months behind schedule
The Pentagon's first batch of new and more capable GPS satellites is as much as eight to 11 months behind the desired ...
The COROS PACE Pro is the new mid-range running watch to beat
I tested the COROS PACE Pro's HR and GPS accuracy against the most powerful Garmin watch; turns out it's one of the best ...
New Atlas4d
Bacterial ‘sat nav’ tracks where you’ve been with surprising accuracy
We naturally pick up microorganisms as we move about the world. Now, researchers have developed an AI tool that accurately ...