Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Two recent government reports have labelled Satelles’ Satellite Time and Location (STL) as a reliable source of resilient timing for critical infrastructure.
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NextNav announced that it has successfully demonstrated the timing precision and resilience of its terrestrial position, navigation, and timing (PNT) system, TerraPoiNT, in a recent evaluation by the Science & Technology Directorate (S&T) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
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Microchip Technology Inc. has released the SA65 chip-scale atomic clock (CSAC) for precise timing accuracy and stability in extreme environments. The product is designed primarily for advanced military platforms, ocean-bottom survey systems and remote sensing applications.
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Facebook engineers have built and open-sourced an Open Compute Time Appliance, a new contribution to modern timing infrastructure, linked to GNSS as the authoritative time source. They call their invention the Time Card
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UrsaNav and ADVA have conducted an enhanced long-range navigation (eLoran) field trial using UrsaNav’s eLoran receiver and ADVA’s Oscilloquartz grandmaster clock technology. The successful demo showed that eLoran offers a robust and reliable backup for GPS and other GNSS and could be used to provide an assured position, navigation, and timing (PNT) service.
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The European Commission and the European Space Agency (ESA) selected Leonardo’s hydrogen atomic clocks for Galileo Second Generation.
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Microchip Technology Inc. integrated its BlueSky GNSS Firewall with its TimePictra 11 synchronization monitoring and management platform to protect 5G networks and other critical timing infrastructure from GPS jamming and spoofing while providing single-console visibility across the entire timing architecture.
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A study by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the U.S. Government agency responsible for maintaining national time scale, shows that Satelles’ Satellite Time and Location (STL) provides a signal that is independent of GNSS with exceptional timing stability and reach that extends indoors, beyond the range of GNSS signals.
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ColdQuanta received two development contracts from U.S. Government agencies worth $2.55M in total, based on the company’s Quantum Core technology that uses atoms cooled to a temperature of nearly absolute zero, and lasers to manipulate and control the atoms with extreme precision. According to the Boulder, Colorado-based company, cold atom quantum technology can be used for secure global navigation, quantum timekeeping, and communications.
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u-blox announced its first multi-band high accuracy timing solutions to concurrently support the L1 and L5 GNSS signals. The ZED-F9T-10B and LEA-F9T-10B timing modules and the RCB-F9T-1 timing card deliver nanosecond-level timing accuracies required to synchronize cellular network base stations and smart power grids.
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Microchip Technology Inc. has integrated its BlueSky technology GPS signal-anomaly detection software into the SyncServer S600 Series network time server and instruments, to protect network timing applications in banking, stock trading, electric utilities, aerospace and defense and other applications.
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Trimble introduced its first dual-frequency — GPS L1 and L5 — embedded timing module providing next-generation wireless networks with 5-nanosecond accuracy.
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In a whitepaper titled “5G Synchronization Requirements and Solutions,” Ericsson CTO Erik Ekudden’ gives his views on the importance of synchronization in 5G and the critical role of GNSS as a backbone and basis of that synchronization.
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ADVA launched a set network synchronization devices with enhanced capabilities for next-generation applications such as 5G. The latest Oscilloquartz products provide timing accuracy and resilience to edge networks. The OSA 5412 and 5422 offer precise phase, frequency and time-of-day synchronization and can be used for time-as-a-service applications.
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Tallysman Wireless introduced two lightweight, compact active Iridium helical antennas: the housed HC610 and the embedded HC610E. They receive the Iridium Satellite Time and Location (STL) signals, used by STL terminals to provide worldwide position, navigation, and timing independent of GPS/GNSS
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