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March 18, 2015
GAO Report: More Delays, Cost Increases for OCX, GPS III

New delays and higher costs should be expected for both the GPS III satellite program and GPS-OCX, the new GPS ground system, federal…

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March 16, 2015
DHS, NIST Make Progress on Protecting GPS

A roof antenna for a GPS timing system. Photo by David Monniaux, Wikimedia Commons Two agencies charged with helping protect America’s critical infrastructure…

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March 14, 2015
Renewed Spectrum Fight Emerges between GPS, LightSquared at ABC Workshop

Spectrum-related tensions reemerged during a workshop on Thursday (March 12, 2015) organized to gather feedback on a testing plan to help protect GPS…

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March 14, 2015
GNSS Hotspots | March 2015

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

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March 14, 2015
Estimating Ionospheric Delay Using GPS/Galileo Signals in the E5 Band

Equations 1 – 4 Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated…

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March 14, 2015
GNSS and Precision Farming

Dr. John Fulton, Ohio State University Nowhere has the fact that GNSS can guide things besides military weapons and transport manifested itself more…

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March 14, 2015
How does a GNSS receiver estimate velocity?

Equations 1 – 11 Q: How does a GNSS receiver estimate velocity? A: Stand-alone single-frequency GNSS receivers represent the largest slice of the…

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March 14, 2015
Expanding EGNOS Horizons

GPS+EGNOS tracking device able to use EGNOS OS and EDAS mounted on a container The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) has a…

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March 13, 2015
Second Galileo FOC Satellite Reaches Corrected Orbit

The European Space Agency (ESA) announced today (March 13, 2015) that the second Galileo full operational capability (FOC) satellite launched into the wrong…

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March 11, 2015
Interest Grows in GPS III Follow-On Competition

David Madden, Space and Missile Systems Center executive director. U.S. Air Force photo The Air Force is working on a creative acquisition strategy…

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March 10, 2015
Rohde & Schwarz adds ERA-GLONASS Emergency Call Functionality to Test Solutions Offerings

Rohde & Schwarz CMW500 wideband radio communications tester Rohde & Schwarz is offering a standard compliant test solution for manufacturers and suppliers of…

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March 8, 2015
NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geospatial Summit 2015

Arlington, Virginia NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey (NGS) Geospatial Summit will be held at the Crystal City Hilton in Arlington, Virginia on April 13-14,…

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March 5, 2015
UAV Want List (with GNSS Already on Board): A Coherent Regulatory Framework for Europe

Chris Blackford of Sky-Futures speaking at AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Europe 2015. Peter Gutierrez photo Just as you do when you get in your…

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March 5, 2015
Launch of IRNSS-1D Delayed Due to Technical Problem

The Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has postponed launch of the fourth Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System spacecraft (IRNSS-1D), originally scheduled for March…

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March 3, 2015
Rx Networks Announces New Version of Its GNSS Extended Ephemeris Solution

Vancouver, Canada–based Rx Networks Inc., announced the upcoming release of its GPStream PGPS v8 extended ephemeris solution yesterday (March 2, 2015) at the…

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