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October 2023: Two recent articles from Politico featured comments from Dr. Todd Humphreys and Zach Clements related to their work from the “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit” paper, as well as more recent observations. Dr. Humphreys stated that their recent observations are ” the most sustained and clear indication of […]

October 2023: A recent Haartz news article on Israel’s GPS jamming efforts counteracting Hezbollah and Hamas drone attacks featured information revealed in Zach Clements’s “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit” paper. Their article provides context for the findings based on local circumstances. The original article can be found here, with a

October 2023: Locus Lock, founded by RNL alumna Hailey Nichols, was selected as one of the startups for the Fall cohort of the Techstars Space Accelerator. The selected teams “are going after big ideas in aerospace, including rapid launch services, precision-based imaging, operating systems for complex robotics, in-space servicing, and thermal protection. Demo Day is

September 2023: “Dr. Todd E. Humphreys, known for his fundamental contributions to secure, precise and robust PNT and GNSS software-defined receivers (SDR), received this year’s Johannes Kepler Award. The Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Satellite Division recognized Dr. Humphreys with this prestigious honor, the highest it bestows, during the ION GNSS+ 2023 conference in Denver.” For

September 2023: A paper written by the RNL’s Zach Clements titled “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit” got published in Inside GNSS. “In the past decade, there has been a sharp increase in GNSS outages due to deliberate GNSS jamming. Receivers in LEO are uniquely situated to detect, classify and geolocate

June 2023: RNL member Zach Clements, Todd Humphreys, and Patrick Ellis from Spire Global were awarded the Walter R. Fried Memorial Award for the best overall paper at the 2023 IEEE/ION PLANS conference. Their paper, titled “Dual-Satellite Geolocation of Terrestrial GNSS Jammers from Low Earth Orbit,” presents a comparison of a two-step geolocation method and

July 2023: A group of 6 students dubbed “DJI But Butter” have been working on improving the RNL’s game-engine by extending the Machine Games demos over the summer. The group, along with an RNL graduate student, took a trip to Houston’s NASA facility to get inspired and stave off summer boredom! During their visit, they

March 2023: A paper written by the RNL’s Robert Tenny titled “Robust Navigation for Urban Air Mobility via Tight Coupling of GNSS with Terrestrial Radionavigation and Inertial Sensing” got published in Inside GNSS. “Central to the transportation revolution that will be driven by urban air mobility (UAM) is the problem of robust and secure navigation.

April 2023: “A vehicular pose estimation technique is presented that tightly couples multi-antenna carrier-phase differential GNSS (CDGNSS) with a low-cost MEMS inertial sensor and vehicle dynamic constraints. This work is the first to explore the use of consumer-grade inertial sensors for tightly coupled urban CDGNSS, and first to explore the tightly coupled combination of multi-antenna

March 2023: “Todd Humphreys began studying electrical engineering at Utah State University with the intention of becoming a patent lawyer. His career path changed, however, thanks to a professor who told him he had the heart of an engineer. […] A third-generation Aggie, Humphreys completed his bachelor’s and master’s degree in electrical engineering from Utah