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Navigation from LEO: Current capability and future promise

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Editor’s Note: This online preview presents brief highlights from the upcoming July cover story in GPS World, “Navigation from LEO: Current Capability and Future Promise.” The article is by David Lawrence, H. Stewart Cobb, Greg Gutt, and Michael O’Connor of Satelles, Tyler G. R. Reid and Todd F. Walter of Stanford University, and David Whelan.

Webinar on Thursday. The Satellite Time and Location service described here will be covered in further detail in an upcoming free webinar on Thursday, June 15: Alternative PNT Services: LEO Satellite Time, Location and More.

Robust position, navigation, and timing services from low Earth orbit (LEO) are…

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