DefenceTalkAir Force Research Laboratory researchers Drs. Robert Bedford, Luke Bissell, Chandriker Dass and Michael Slocum are finding practical applications for the curious phenomena that occur in quantum materials. Until the late 1990s, the properties – or even the existence – of such materials seemed little more than theoretical. But, what is a quantum material? Once […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-air-force-investigates-using-quantum-materials-in-new-navigation-tool-75437/

The flight navigation strategy of moths can be used to develop programs that help drones to navigate unfamiliar environments, report Ioannis Paschalidis at Boston University, Thomas Daniel at University of Washington, and colleagues, in the open-access journal PLOS Computational Biology. To understand how real moths plan their route, the researchers mounted 8 hawk moths (Mantuca […]

DefenceTalkThe Galileo satellite navigation system, Europe’s rival to the United States’ GPS, has nearly 100 million users after its first year of operation, the French space agency CNES said Thursday. The system, seen as strategically important to Europe, went live in December 2016, having taken 17 years at more than triple the original budget to […]https://www.defencetalk.com/europe-claims-100-million-users-for-galileo-satnav-system-71386/

DefenceTalkSeventeen years and more than 10 billion euros ($11 billion) later, Europe’s Galileo satnav system is set to go live on Thursday, promising to outperform US and Russian rivals while boosting regional self-reliance. Initial services, free to use worldwide, will be available only on smartphones and navigation boxes already fitted with Galileo-compatible microchips. Some devices […]https://www.defencetalk.com/galileo-europes-own-satnav-to-go-online-68670/

DefenceTalkChina’s homegrown navigation system, the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS), will provide continuous, stable and reliable open services to users “free of charge”, said a government report on Thursday. Currently, B1I and B2I open service signals are being broadcast by the operating BDS-2 to provide open services to the Asia-Pacific region free of charge, said […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-promises-gps-system-thats-reliable-safe-and-free-67738/

DefenceTalkChina has made breakthroughs in the anti-jamming capability of its Beidou satellite navigation system (BDS), the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Daily said Thursday. The new technology, developed by Wang Feixue and his team from the National University of Defense Technology, has made the satellites 1,000 times more secure, the newspaper said. In March, China launched […]https://www.defencetalk.com/chinas-beidou-navigation-system-more-resistant-to-jamming-64780/

DefenceTalkDYESS AFB, Texas: On May 18, the last of two 337th Test and Evaluation Squadron B-1B Lancers returned to Dyess from a training mission to Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, during which the B-1’s Block-16 upgrade and inertial navigation system replacement (INS-R) were evaluated on long-duration and trans-hemispheric sorties. The primary purpose of these sorties […]https://www.defencetalk.com/337th-tes-operationally-tests-b-1s-block-16-ins-r-in-asia-pacific-64401/

DefenceTalkResearchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a centimeter-accurate GPS-based positioning system that could revolutionize geolocation on virtual reality headsets, cellphones and other technologies, making global positioning and orientation far more precise than what is currently available on a mobile device. The researchers’ new system could […]https://www.defencetalk.com/new-gps-system-could-transform-virtual-reality-and-mobile-devices-64167/

DefenceTalkChina and Russia strengthened cooperation in satellite navigation by holding the first meeting of the China-Russia Cooperation Program Committee on Satellite Navigation on Tuesday. The meeting reviewed the two countries’ collaboration in this area so far, set up several working groups and made plans for the future. Both sides agreed that China-Russia cooperation will play […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-russia-strengthen-satellite-navigation-cooperation-62942/

DefenceTalkChina and Russia have signed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to cooperate in developing navigation satellite systems. The document was signed on Monday by the China Satellite Navigation Office and Russian Federal Space Agency on the sidelines of the on-going China-Russia expo in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. Chinese Vice Premier Wang Yang […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-russia-to-cooperate-in-satellite-navigation-60093/