Positioning and navigation by satellites has now become part of everyday life for many citizens all over the globe, and a plethora of (commercial) services rely on the continuous well...

CR Kennedy, Leica Geosystems partner in Australia, has won a tender to supply new Continuously Operating Reference Stations (CORS) to Spatial Information Infrastructure of the Department of Sustainability and Environment...

Last year we replaced the term GPS (Global Positioning System) by GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) because of their gradual evolution into real navigation systems. The receivers listed here represent...

China has announced plans to build a satellite navigation system that will include up to 35 satellites and be working in the Asian region by 2008. The system, called "Beidou",...

This month we bring you an extended interview with engineer Pedro Pedreira, executive director of the European Global Navigation Satellite System Supervisory Authority (GSA)since July 2005, the body charged with...

By the end of this decade, four independent Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) will be operational. Today only the American GPS system is fully operational, and the Russian GLONASS system...

With the Leica AR25, Leica Geosystems introduces the next generation of high performance choke ring antenna, covering all present and currently planned GNSS constellations and signals, including L-Band (SBAS, CDGPS...

China has successfully put a navigation satellite into orbit on 3rd February from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The carrier rocket, Long March 3-A, blasted...

The Munich Satellite Navigation Summit opened during the first week in March 2009 with a plenary session entitled ‘The Worldwide Race in GNSS’ and closed with a panel discussion on...

Leica Geosystems introduces the AR10 high-performance wideband GNSS antenna with integrated radome and large ground plane. The AR10 uses an all new antenna technology to provide exceptional signal tracking, phase...