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Dorides to Head European GNSS Agency [updated]

[updated January 18, 2011] Carlo des Dorides has been named as the new executive director of the European GNSS Agency (formerly the Galileo Supervisory Authority or GSA).

He will succeed Heike Wieland, who leaves at the end of January to become principal legal council at the European Patent Office. Wieland served as GSA acting director following the departure of Pedro Pedreira last June.

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January 9, 2011

A Model-Based Approach

For the complete story, including figures, graphs, and images, please download the PDF of the article, above.

Galileo receiver designers require formal interface specifications for the Galileo signal-in-space (SIS) in order to write unambiguous and accurate specifications for Galileo receivers. To compute their positions, Galileo receivers must be able to retrieve timing and orbital information from the data stream conveyed in Galileo analog signals.

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GNSS Interference, Detection and Mitigation

Bushy House

Britain’s Position, Navigation and Timing Network of the Digital Systems
KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) presents a one-day workshop on
"GNSS Interference, Detection and Mitigation."

Professor Martyn Thomas will present the
conclusions of the Royal Academy of Engineering report on GNSS vulnerability, which was released on March 8.  

The workshop will take place at Bushy House, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex on Thursday, March 10 2011 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Topics include:

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By Inside GNSS
December 30, 2010

Europe’s Galileo Reaches Many 2010 Milestones – but Satellite Launches Still Delayed

Soyuz launch of IOV satellite. ESA illustration

Europe’s Galileo space-based navigation system still awaits launch of its first in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites — now set for August 2011 — but the program is rolling out a steady stream of announcements of milestones reached.

Most recently, European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) officials inaugurated the Fucino Galileo Control Center, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Rome, which will be responsible for the Ground Mission Segment.

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December 22, 2010

GMV Will Launch Fully Hosted Software GPS Receiver at Mobile World Congress

GMV will launch the SRX-10, a software GPS receiver for mass-market applications, at this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress, scheduled February 14–17 in Barcelona, Spain.

As a fully hosted solution, all SRX-10 receiver functions — even signal acquisition and tracking — can be hosted on a general purpose CPU with only the requirement of adding on a low cost RF front-end, according to the company.
The company cites other benefits offered by its new software receiver, particularly its substantial flexibility and upgradeability.

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December 1, 2010

SpectraTime Announces Galileo PHM Contract Award

SpectraTime passive hydrogen physics package

SpectraTime has announced that it signed an €11 million contract with Selex Galileo S.p.A to supply the core element of the passive hydrogen masers (PHMs) for the first 14 full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellites.

A second contract to supply the secondary atomic clocks (Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standards) should be signed in early 2011, according to the Neuchâtel, Switzerland­–based member company of the Orolia Group.

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European Space Council Backs Galileo; 2011 Funding Still Unresolved

ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and European Space Council co-chair Sabine Laruelle, Belgian science minister. Photo: ESA – S. Corvaja

While funding and technical issues continue to roil the waters at the program and operational level, Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) have received a strong reaffirmation of support from the highest levels of the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA).

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By Inside GNSS
November 7, 2010

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit 2011

Residenz entrance, familiar to Munich Satellite Navigation Summit attendees.

The 2011 Munich Satellite Navigation Summit will take place from March 1 through 3 in Der Residenz, the palace of the old Bavarian royal family and now home to four museums. 

The event features high-level discussions about all of the world’s navigation satellite systems. It is organized by the Institute of Geodesy and Navigation at University FAF Munich.

The technical program begines with a plenary presentation on "GNSS in Balance," followed by a Bavarian State Reception.

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November 2, 2010

Space Reflecto 2010

The first workshop on passive reflectometry using radiocom space signals is organized by two technical competence centers (CCT) of the French space agency, CNES. They are signal and images processing (TSI) and Position datation by satellite (PDS).

It will take place on December 1 2010 at the Institut Aero Spatial in Toulouse, France.

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