NextNav NN -4.65%↓ has announced that it has been selected by NASA’s Ames Research Center to deliver PNT services for its urban drone program. The program will use NextNav’s TerraPoiNT network in the San Francisco Bay Area to capture in-flight horizontal and vertical location data and...
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Oriient Partners With Google, Gains Marketplace Entry
Oriient, which...
Says Map Automation Rate is 96 Percent
Baidu BIDU 1.39%↑ has announced that it plans to build the world’s largest autonomous ride-hailing service area in 2023. The company, which made the announcement at its Baidu Apollo Day autonomous driving event this week, says its high-precision...
Amazon Web Services AMZN -0.59%↓ said its managed cloud service, AWS IoT Core, now features AWS IoT Core Device Location service that allows customers to track and manage IoT devices using their location data. As an example, the company said customers can now identify a IoT...
Lockheed Martin LMT -0.59%↓ has been awarded a $744 million U.S. Space Force contract for three GPS 3F satellites. The contract option is part of a $7.2 billion 2018 procurement that calls for as many as 22 satellites.
The new GPS 3F satellites, space vehicles...
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Beaconsmind Acquires Controlling Stake in FREDERIX Hotspot
Switzerland-based beaconsmind AG has agreed to acquire a 51 percent controlling stake in FREDERIX...
Retired U.S. Army Gen. David Petraeus will lead a new committee to support company’s global expansion.
Australia-based Advanced Navigation has announced a $68 million Series B round of funding led by KKR KKR 0.15%↑. Round participants include new investor Alpha Intelligence Capital and existing investors Main Sequence, former...
Google Maps GOOG -0.89%↓ last week rolled out an updated version for Android and iPhone that is packed with new features, including the ability to search for electric vehicle stations with fast chargers.
Users can search for “EV charging stations'' and select the a fast charger filter to...
Germany-based PTV Group entered the U.S. fleet tracking market recently with a new truck navigation app. CEO Christian Haas says the PTV Truck Navigator G2 compliments existing U.S. tracking systems.
“With our app, we deliver a useful addition to other leading systems. For example, a TMS...
In a widely released story the past week, researchers at Delft University of Technology, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and VSL say their alternative positioning system is more robust and accurate than GPS—especially in urban settings.
The researchers say their working prototype achieved accuracy of 10...
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