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December 29, 2008
Applanix Upgrades POS, POSpac Products

Applanix Corporation has launched the POSPac MMS (Mobile Mapping Suite) 5.2, the latest release of its GNSS-aided inertial post-processing software for mobile mapping…

By Glen Gibbons


December 29, 2008
Build Your Own GPS Contest

Canadian GNSS manufacturer Baseband Technologies, Inc., has launched a “Build Your Own GPS Contest,” inviting would-be designers to submit brief written ideas for…

By Glen Gibbons


December 26, 2008
GNSS Postprocessing Software

OnPOZ Precision Positioning (a division of VGI Solutions) offers a new EZSurv GNSS Post-Processing version that offers full compatibility with GLONASS satellite signals….

By Glen Gibbons


December 26, 2008
Russia Launches Three More GLONASS-M Space Vehicles

Proton with three GLONASS-Ms The Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) successfully launched a Proton-M rocket and three GLONASS-M satellites at 10:53 a.m. (GMT)…

By Glen Gibbons


December 23, 2008
International System Providers Meeting (ICG-3) Reflects GNSS’s Competing Interests, Cooperative Objectives

Representatives from the world’s GNSS system and augmentation providers spent a sun-laden week in Pasadena, California, recently, advancing aspirations for their separate enterprises…

By Glen Gibbons


December 19, 2008
European Space Agency Names Günter Hein to Galileo Post

Günter Hein The European Space Agency (ESA) has appointed Prof. Dr. Günter Hein to serve as Head of Galileo Operations and Evolution with…

By Glen Gibbons


November 25, 2008
OnPOZ Precision Positioning Releases new GNSS Post-Processor with GLONASS Compatibility

OnPOZ Precision Positioning, a VGI Solutions division, has announced its new EZSurv GNSS Post-Processing version that offers full compatibility with GLONASS satellite signals….

By Glen Gibbons


November 24, 2008
GPS Constellation Simulator

GPS Creations offers the GPS SIM14, an L1/L2 GPS constellation simulator available in either C/A code–only or C/A-code and P-code configurations, which can…

By Glen Gibbons


November 24, 2008
OEM GNSS Board

Magellan has introduced its MB 500 OEM GNSS receiver board with GPS+GLONASS+SBAS dual-frequency, real-time kinematic (RTK) capability. Offering 75 channels, the receiver can…

By Glen Gibbons


November 20, 2008
UK Presses Ahead with eLoran, DGPS Modernization

Cumbria, UK – Wikimedia Commons image Even as the United States tries to decide whether to make good on a commitment last February…

By Glen Gibbons


November 20, 2008
QZSS Progress Spurs Spirent Simulator Capability

QZS-1 Satellite Encouraged by continuing progress on Japan’s Quasi Zenith Satellite System (QZSS), Spirent Communications has announced that its GSS8000 simulation system now…

By Glen Gibbons


November 18, 2008
China to Launch 10 Compass Satellites over Next Two years

Compass Constellation in 2010 (updated 12/8/08) China plans to launch 10 Compass satellites during the next two years in order to create a…

By Glen Gibbons


November 14, 2008
GPS Wing Reaches GPS III IBR Milestone

The GPS Wing has completed an integrated baseline review of the GPS IIIA program, the first major milestone for the $1.4 billion development…

By Glen Gibbons


November 12, 2008
Blaupunkt Chooses u-blox to Supply GNSS Receivers

Blaupunkt, a leading supplier of automotive systems, has signed a “frame” agreement with u-blox to supply GPS and Galileo receiver technology for navigation,…

By Glen Gibbons


November 12, 2008
GLONASS Constellation Grows to 17 as Latest Satellites Come On-line

Russian Proton Launcher Carrying Latest GLONASS Satellites at Baikonur Space Center The latest trio of modernized GLONASS satellites (GLONASS-M) have begun transmitting healthy…

By Glen Gibbons


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