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October 9, 2007
Transport Ministers Leave Galileo Procurement Unresolved

The European Transport Council generally reaffirmed its commitment to the Galileo program in an October 2 meeting without resolving some underlying differences of…

By Glen Gibbons


October 9, 2007
Xsens Integrated GPS-IMU Unit

Xsens Technologies has launched a GPS-enhanced IMU, the MTi-G. The device incorporates an integrated 16-channel GPS and MEMS inertial measurement unit with an…

By Glen Gibbons


October 8, 2007
Hexagon Launches Acquisition of NovAtel Shares

Swedish technology group Hexagon AB, which acquired Leica Geosystems in 2005, launched its tender offer to acquire all the issued and outstanding common…

By Glen Gibbons


October 6, 2007
Cornering the Market on Navigable Maps? Nokia/NAVTEQ, TomTom/Tele Atlas Deals

The stunning sequence of multi-billion-dollar buyout offers for the two leading navigable map data providers TeleAtlas and NAVTEQ — by TomTom and Nokia,…

By Glen Gibbons


October 6, 2007
Block IIF Satellite Heads for Key Tests

Boeing technicians and first Block IIF satellite The Boeing Company has successfully assembled and integrated all flight hardware onto the first GPS Block…

By Glen Gibbons


October 6, 2007
AGU Fall Meeting

By Glen Gibbons


October 6, 2007
Growing GALILEO – New technologies, new applications, new benefits, new horizons

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA) will host a major event to launch GNSS activities under the Seventh Research Framework Programme (FP7). Includes…

By Glen Gibbons


October 4, 2007
Trimble Launches Embedded OEM GNSS Receiver

Trimble has introduced a new, real-time kinematic (RTK) compact GNSS card — the Trimble BD960 — for high-precision guidance and control applications, such…

By Glen Gibbons


October 4, 2007
DataGrid Brings Out OEM GPS/GLONASS Board

Using an FPGA baseband chipset and low-power DSP of its own design, DataGrid Inc. offers an OEM GPS/GLONASS receiver board, the DGRx-GNSS. According…

By Glen Gibbons


October 4, 2007
NovAtel Confirmed for Long-Term Galileo Contracft

Thales Alenia Space Italia (TAS-I) has awarded NovAtel Inc. a €440,000 milestone award for continued development of the Galileo ground reception Chain (GRC)…

By Glen Gibbons


September 26, 2007
International Symposium on GPS/GNSS 2008

An annual conference that rotates among countries in the Asia-Pacific region, the International Symposium on GPS/GNSS 2008 will be held at the Tokyo…

By Glen Gibbons


September 26, 2007
GLONASS has “preliminary approval” to transmit CDMA GLONASS signals at L1, L5

GLONASS has gotten “preliminary approval” to add code division multiple access (CDMA) signals to future satellites. Since its initiation in the early 1980s,…

By Glen Gibbons


September 20, 2007
Selective Availability: Completely Dead

Selective Availability (SA), the contentious issue of degrading the open GPS civil to advantage military signals, is going away for good under the…

By Glen Gibbons


September 19, 2007
ITT SAASM Military Receiver

The Advanced System Improvement Program (ASIP) Embedded GPS Receiver (EGR) from ITT Corporation is a 12-channel Selective Availability-Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM) GPS receiver using…

By Glen Gibbons


September 19, 2007
NavCom Tech L1 GPS RTK Receiver

NavCom Technology offers its new SF-2110M and SF-2110R modular L1 StarFire GPS receivers. The SF-2110M has an integrated, compact dual-band antenna capable of…

By Glen Gibbons


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