GPS

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Study asks: Can cell phone signals help land a plane?

October 22, 2024 • Researchers from Sandia National Laboratories and The Ohio State University are taking experimental navigation technology to the skies, pioneering a backup system to keep an airplane on course when it cannot rely on global positioning system satellites.

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: air travel safety, Doppler effect, GPS, GPS-denied navigation, LDRD, navigation, weather balloon

The race to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, again

August 29, 2023 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Yuan-Yu Jau is on a quest to build the world’s smallest atomic clock, a device that measures time with extreme accuracy. If successful, he and his team at Sandia National Laboratories will have made one smaller than a sugar cube. But he’s not the only one pushing...

Categories: Military / Defense

Topics: atomic clock, DARPA, GPS, MESA

At Sandia Labs, a vision for navigating when GPS goes dark

October 24, 2022 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Words like “tough” or “rugged” are rarely associated with a quantum inertial sensor. The remarkable scientific instrument can measure motion a thousand times more accurately than the devices that help navigate today’s missiles, aircraft and drones. But its delicate, table-sized array of components that includes a complex...

Categories: Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: atom interferometer, GPS, miniaturization, navigation, Photonics, quantum sensing, ruggedization

This device could usher in GPS-free navigation

October 26, 2021 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Don’t let the titanium metal walls or the sapphire windows fool you. It’s what’s on the inside of this small, curious device that could someday kick off a new era of navigation. For over a year, the avocado-sized vacuum chamber has contained a cloud of atoms at...

Categories: Military / Defense, Physics, Science / Technology / Engineering

Topics: GPS, navigation, quantum sensing

Looking from space for nuclear detonations

August 18, 2016 • ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Sandia National Laboratories’ Jaime Gomez was too busy to celebrate the successful launch of the latest nuclear detonation detection system — he was already deep into the next generation. The Global Burst Detection (GBD) system launched Feb. 5 from Cape Canaveral aboard the 70th Global Positioning System...

Categories: Military / Defense, Nonproliferation

Topics: GBD, global burst detection, GPS, nonproliferation, nuclear detonation sensing, payload, satellites