- Saab Space to Supply Antennas for New Generation Direct-to-Mobile Satellites.
STOCKHOLM, Sweden -- Saab Space (STO:SAABB) in Gothenburg, Sweden, has received an order for hundreds of antenna elements to Boeing Space and Intelligence System's new, hi-profile Mobile Satellite Venture (MSV) system satellites. "Our heritage as a successful supplier to Boeing's Thuraya and ICO satellite systems was of course an important ......
- Topcon Technology Roadshow
Topcon Positioning Systems and Bunce Positioning Solutions teamed up last fall to present the Topcon Technology Roadshow at the Stow, Mass., dealer's headquarters. The October 22 event preceded two other events that also put Topcon in the news — the Christmas Day and December 28 launch, respectively, of GLONASS and ......
- Outback S-Lite guidance system.
Hemisphere's Outback SLite is a low-cost, portable,entry-level GPS guidance solution for non-precisionspraying, spreading, and broad-acre tillage and seeding. Offering many of the same features as the Outback S series products, Outback S-Lite includes Straight Guidance, Contour Guidance, and Return to Point features. It can eliminate the need for a foam ......
- Surface transportation and global positioning system
improvements: L5 and DGPS.
Introduction Several proposed improvements to the Global Positioning System (GPS) are likely to benefit surface transportation. The two primary improvements are L5, the second civilian GPS downlink frequency, and Differential GPS (DGPS). Unfortunately, a great deal of confusion has surrounded them, anti unless you have been following the debate closely, ......
- Terrestrial Radio Gets New Senate Support
On March 15, Senators Olympia Snowe, R., Maine, Max Baucus, D., Mont., and Trent Lott, R., Miss., introduced the "Local Emergency Radio Service Preservation Act of 2006." ......
- Delphi Demonstrates Its Operable Satellite Digital
Radio System.
Delphi Automotive Systems successfully demonstrated one of the first mobile satellite digital audio receiver service (SDARS) receiving systems recently with a connection to a digital radio signal from XM Satellite Radio. The XM digital music signal was successfully received by an open-air SDARS remote Delphi receiver and played through a ......
- Military wireless systems require sturdier defenses.
(Industry Viewpoint).
Radio frequency interference is pervasive in the wireless age. Cell phone customers undoubtedly have encountered some level of RH at one time or another. For military users of wireless systems, failure to safeguard against unwanted RFI-particularly when it comes to sensitive defense systems-can have serious consequences. While some RFI is ......