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July 20, 2016
Spirent’s Positioning Technology Unit Receives RIN’s Navigation Award for Technical Achievement

Eric Hutchinson, Spirent’s Chief Executive Officer, (left) receives the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) Duke of Edinburgh Navigation Award for Technical Achievement from…

By Inside GNSS


July 20, 2016
Attempted Coup in Turkey Leads to Cancellation of COSPAR Conference

COSPAR 2016, originally scheduled for July 30 to August 7 in Istanbul, Turkey, has been cancelled due to the recent attempted coup by…

By Inside GNSS


July 19, 2016
GNSS Hotspots | July 2016

One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859 1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman…

By Inside GNSS


July 17, 2016
Jade Morton: The Long and Scintillating Road

Jade Morton, in the front row at the right, with her sisters and grandmother >>Jade Morton’s Compass Points Yu — or Jade, in…

By Inside GNSS


July 15, 2016
Pursued by GPS-Aided Advertisers? Check the Small Print

When we’re using a mobile location-based application such as getting driving directions from Google Maps, it’s not surprising to see advertisements from local…

By Inside GNSS


July 15, 2016
GPS Directorate Seeks Public Comment On Interface Specification Changes for Signals in Space

The GPS Directorate is requesting public comments on proposed changes to several interface specification (IS) and Interface Control documents (ICDs) for GPS signals…

By Inside GNSS


July 8, 2016
Department of Transportation Calls for More Testing of GPS/GNSS Receivers for Adjacent Band Compatibility

DoT Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology Gregory Winfree A Federal Register notice published on July 7, 2016 announced Department of Transportation (DoT)…

By Inside GNSS


July 8, 2016
2016 PNT Symposium at Stanford

The Stanford Center for Positioning, Navigation and Timing and the Marconi Society jointly sponsor the 10th Annual PNT Symposium at Stanford on November…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2016
Spirent Announces New GNSS Simulator

GSS7000 Spirent Communications has launched the GSS7000 series of multi-frequency, multi-GNSS RF constellation simulators. The GSS7000 series emulates all civil GNSS systems and…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2016
Parkinson’s GPS Role Earns Marconi Prize

Brad Parkinson, recipient of 2016 Marconi Prize Bradford Parkinson, the original manager of the NAVSTAR GPS development program and a Stanford professor emeritus…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2016
New Royal Institute of Navigation Honors for Terry Moore

University of Nottingham Professor Terry Moore Terry Moore, director of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University of Nottingham, will receive the…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2016
Interference Mitigation in the E5a Galileo Band Using an Open-Source Simulator

Four global navigation satellite systems are scheduled to be fully operational orbiting Earth in the coming years: the NAVSTAR Global Positioning System (GPS)…

By Inside GNSS


July 6, 2016
How does one compute the noise power to simulate real and complex GNSS signals?

Q: How does one compute the noise power to simulate real and complex GNSS signals?

By Inside GNSS


July 5, 2016
European Satellite Navigation Competition Gives You One More Week to Send in Ideas

The submission phase for the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2016 is going into extra time. Companies, research institutes and individuals from anyplace in…

By Inside GNSS


July 5, 2016
GNSS and the Law

GNSS and the Law covers the emerging legal and regulatory issues of a multi-GNSS world, from world trade law to security and defense…

By Inside GNSS


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