Europe’s fifth Galileo satellite, one of two delivered into an incorrect orbit by the VS09 Soyuz-Fregat launcher in August, transmitted its first navigation signal in space on Saturday, 29 November...

With the commissioning of Sentinel-1A completed and the satellite’s transfer for exploitation, its data is now available to all users. This marks the beginning of the satellite’s operational life, delivering...

Septentrio Satellite Navigation NV designs, manufactures and sells high-precision OEM GNSS receivers for the most demanding navigation, positioning and timing applications. We provide receivers which are used in marine solutions...

A study was conducted to evaluate the use of a satellite-derived bathymetry (SDB) procedure to map shallow-water bathymetry in a GIS environment, and to identify areas that require a new...

Fugro Satellite Positioning, a business line within the Fugro NV group of companies, is a leading supplier of high-performance satellite navigation products and services for marine and offshore applications. Fugro markets a...

The International Marine Contractors Association (IMCA, UK) has published new guidance on the selection of satellite positioning systems, warning that in recent years lower priority has been given to system...

In this feature the current status and future development of four Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) are briefly presented. These four systems are the American Global Positioning System (GPS), the...

The Russian Space Forces have successfully launched a new Glonass-K navigation satellite from the Plesetsk space center, a Defense Ministry spokesman said Saturday. The previous launch under the Glonass project...

Fugro Seastar AS has announced the introduction of the MarineSTAR Manoeuvring System. The system provides a highly accurate, stable position reference for ship's bridge systems such as ECDIS. Fugro Seastar...

The concept of GNSS was first introduced by the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Commission (EC) and Eurocontrol in the early nineties. They defined requirements for a European GPS...