ECHO Network Is Online

GNSS Monitoring Stations deployed at 7 major Romanian airports Our colleagues have completed the installation of GNSS monitoring and interference detection stations at 7 major airports in Romania and their initial commissioning phase has begun. For each airport, the role of the stations is to provide the local Air Navigation Services Provider with GNSS performance reports and real-time alerts about any issues that could affect the GNSS-based operations: interference, jamming, spoofing or GNSS signal degradation. Each station Read more…

RISE presents Security Oriented Products

More than 100 experts from the security and IT&C governmental organizations attended the “RF Technologies, Products and Solutions Presentation – Applications in Countering Drone Threats” event organized by Tejas Development together with RISE and RFCore. We had a chance to showcase some of our most ambitious projects and our security related technologies to a highly specialized audience. The event proved to be a valuable opportunity in initiating potential collaborations to develop multi-disciplinary solutions to the growing number of threats in these areas. Read more…

2 water droplets in direct contact

First Light on Drop Coalescence hardware development

We are excited to share the first successful results of our colleagues developing the hardware for an experiment to be flown on the International Space Station. The video presented today shows a high speed recording of the dynamics of two water droplets coalescence and mixing process. One is a 2 mm diameter water droplet, the other one is a methylene-blue water solution and has about 1 mm diameter. The recording was performed at 7926 frames per Read more…

Installation of 4 GNSS Reference Stations

RISE has successfully finalized one of our most ambitious projects this year – delivering and installing a system of 4 GNSS reference stations broadcasting RTK correction for ships in the vicinity of the Romanian Black Sea coast. The 4 stations were installed at 4 landing lighthouses operated by the Maritime Hydrographic Directorate – the Romanian national authority covering the maritime hydrography and marine cartography, as well as maritime signaling using lighthouses.   As the official distributor Read more…

VaQube-1 Delivered

Our colleagues have delivered today VaQube-1, our first major piece of equipment for conducting tests on products for space. The main component of the installation is a vacuum chamber for long duration tests, built based on the requirements of the client, as it will be used for contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA). Our AIT facilities team was able to design, manufacture, test and deliver the product within 6 months from the order. VaQube-1 is a compact, Read more…

Announcing HaPPi HAT Compact GNSS receiver

Today we have finished the assembly and testing of our first product for the mass market: the High Accuracy Positioning Pi HAT. The HAPPi HAT is a Raspberry Pi extension board targeting autonomous rovers and UAVs offering sub-decimetre positioning accuracy in a compact and low-power device. For developing the HAPPi HAT we have leveraged years of experience in GNSS signal processing with our capabilities of high skilled electronic design. The board utilizes a professional grade GNSS receiver to compute solutions based Read more…

Iaso Presented Publicly

Today we had a public presentation of the Iaso COVID-19 Response Platform as part of the Sol-2020 Matchmaking Day event organized by UEFISCDI – the financing authority for R&D in Romania. The final presentation of the solution our consortium proposed took place in September 2020, when the full platform was demonstrated in real time with officials from the Ministry of Education and Research, the Romanian Space Agency, the Ministry of Health and the Special Telecommunications Read more…

Stratospheric Balloon Launches in 2020

RISE is announcing the finalization of its 2020 campaign of high altitude balloon launches. This year we have managed to have 4 balloon launches coordinated by us and also help our friends at kidibot​​​​​​​ with the launch of an educational balloon. Besides carrying several experiments on hardware we produced, we also managed to pass the record for the highest HAB flight in Romania. We thank all our partners who helped in development and tracking of our flights Read more…

MARGOT Project Results at ION GNSS+ 2020

The MARGOT project was successfully completed this month. With almost 2800 hours of data collected in different maritime and fluvial navigation environments and an in-depth analysis of the local errors that impacted the GNSS measurements, the project provided conclusions for local error modelling and recommendations for future maritime regulations. The project was included in ESA’s NAVISP Element I programme and it was developed by RISE, with the Romanian Space Agency, GMV, Joanneum Research and GeoEcoMar Read more…

CovTrack Featured on ESA’s WebSite

We are proud to notice that the website of the European Space Agency​​​​​​​ recognizes our efforts of rapidly re-orienting our background experience in space towards mitigating, at least in part, the effects of the COVID-19 epidemic. CovTrack is a contact tracing application for mobile devices notifying users of potential interactions with confirmed COVID-19 patients and helping them decide if self-isolation is necessary when exposures are confirmed. The application has at its foundation our Agora suite – Read more…