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August 29, 2014
Air Force Weighs Switching to Multiyear GPS Procurements

The Air Force says it might ask Congress for permission to implement bigger buys of GPS satellites beginning in fiscal year 2016 (FY16)…

By Inside GNSS


August 29, 2014
DoT Plan for GPS Adjacent Band Compatibility Study to Get Airing

A Department of Transportation (DoT) plan that would establish limits on the power of transmissions from bands adjacent to GPS and other GNSS…

By Inside GNSS


August 29, 2014
Europe Presses Ahead with Galileo Probe, Program

Europe’s fifth and sixth satellites on top of their Soyuz launcher at the top of its mobile gantry before their errant August 22,…

By Inside GNSS


August 29, 2014
RTCA Standards Committee Grapples with UAS Collision Avoidance Rules

Techniques to avoid aircraft collisions took center stage as aviation experts met in Washington this week to continue hammering out the standards essential…

By Inside GNSS


August 23, 2014
Galileo Soyuz Launches May Be Frozen Following Launch Anomaly; Board of Inquiry, Internal EC Task Force to Study Situation

The contract for Arianespace’s three Ariane 5 launches to orbit a total of 12 Galileo FOC (Full Operational Capability) satellites was signed at…

By Inside GNSS


August 23, 2014
GNSS Charts Drought-Driven Tectonic ‘Uplift’ in Western U.S.

Precise GNSS measurements have revealed that the severe drought gripping the western United States in recent years is changing the landscape well beyond…

By Inside GNSS


August 23, 2014
Galileo Teams Investigating ‘Injection Anomaly’ of FOC Satellites

European Space Agency (ESA) and industry officials said today (August 23, 2014) that they are investigating Arianespace’s announcements about anomalies in the orbit…

By Inside GNSS


August 22, 2014
NovAtel Introduces an IMU Option for SPAN GNSS/INS Products That Can Travel

NovAtel IMU-ISA-100C NovAtel Inc. has announced the addition of the IMU-ISA-100C as an inertial measurement Unit (IMU) option for its SPAN GNSS+INS line…

By Inside GNSS


August 22, 2014
Europe Puts First FOC Satellites into Orbit

After 20 years of discussion, conceptualization, political struggle, and technical reverses, Europe has placed its first two fully operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellites…

By Inside GNSS


August 21, 2014
Weather Delays Galileo Launch

Due to unfavorable weather conditions of the Guiana Space Center near Kourou, French Guiana, Arianespace decided to postpone the launch scheduled for today…

By Inside GNSS


August 19, 2014
Virginia: Autonomous Technology

David Schmale, an associate professor in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Virginia Tech uses unmanned aircraft to take samples of…

By Inside GNSS


August 19, 2014
Texas: Marine Applications

An unmanned aircraft captures attention on the Corpus Christi campus. 1. The Team

By Inside GNSS


August 19, 2014
North Dakota: Communications and Electronics

A University of North Dakota researcher totes a ScanEagle during a day of testing. 1. The Team The state’s lieutenant governor chairs the…

By Inside GNSS


August 19, 2014
New York: Testing and Evaluation

1. The Team Airspace Integration Research (NUAIR) Alliance leads a consortium of more than 50 universities, companies and facilities supporting testing on unmanned…

By Inside GNSS


August 18, 2014
Despite Congressional Support, 2015 GPS Budget Drops

Members of Congress mapped out some rare common ground with both House and the Senate appropriators agreeing to not only fully fund nearly…

By Inside GNSS


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