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April 30, 2013
Galileo Conversation: Regulation, Budget, Markets, and International Relations

Paul Flament, Head, European Commission Satellite Navigation Unit. Photo by Peter Gutierrez Paul Flament is head of the European Commission’s Satellite Navigation Unit….

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April 30, 2013
Air Force Examining Broader Options for Next GPS III Satellite Buy

Gen. William Shelton. DoD photo The Air Force will decide this fall whether to build more GPS III satellites or move to a…

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April 30, 2013
BeiDou to Restart Satellite Launches Next Year, Shift B1 Signal Frequency after 2016

Yang Yuanxi, China National Administration of GNSS and Applications China will begin launching BeiDou-2 satellites again in 2013 as it begins its test…

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April 30, 2013
Defense Department CIO Teresa Takai Gets Positioning, Navigation and Timing Brief

DoD CIO Teresa Takai. DoD photo A Department of Defense Directive (DoDD 5144.02) issued April 22 clarifies the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT)…

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April 30, 2013
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites

PhoneSat. NASA image ET may have an improved method to phone home and satellite operators, a new way to position and control satellites…

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April 28, 2013
Russia Launches Another GLONASS-M Satellite

Russia launched another GLONASS-M satellite on Friday (April 26, 2013) on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.

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April 25, 2013
GNSS summer school for young engineers to be held in Tokyo this August

Doctoral-level graduate students and early-career engineers, researchers and instructors from Japan and the rest of the world are invited to a weeklong summer…

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April 25, 2013
North Korea’s GPS Jamming Prompts South Korea to Endorse Nationwide eLoran System

Projected accuracy and coverage of Korea’s eLoran network. Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of Korea GPS jamming attacks from North Korea that have…

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April 19, 2013
Topcon Launches OEM Precise Heading Product

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has announced the MR-1 Heading System, an OEM GNSS solution for high-performance positioning and heading applications on moving platforms….

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April 16, 2013
U.S. Agencies Seek Comments on Future Uses of NDGPS

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), is seeking public comments…

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April 16, 2013
Military GPS Budget Appears Steady as President Bids to Slow Defense Cuts

Spending pressures on the Pentagon seem to be coming from every direction, and the GPS program appears unlikely to avoid them entirely. The…

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April 16, 2013
Galileo Satellite Achieves High Earth Orbit Positioning with GPS

GPS signal side lobes. When the European Space Agency launched its Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A (GIOVE-A) satellite in 2005, its main mission was…

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April 16, 2013
Locata Installation Supports U.S. Vehicle Crash Avoidance Research

The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety will use Locata positioning to control automated testing of frontal collision avoidance and other safety systems….

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April 12, 2013
A First-Hand Look at Smithsonian’s New Exhibit That Links Time and Navigation

Smithsonian staff prepare Ramsden sextant for mounting at Time and Navigation exhibit. Photo by Dee Ann Divis Thanks to an accident of renovation,…

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April 12, 2013
19th KA + 31st AIAA ICSSC Joint Conference

Florence 1493 stamp This joint conference held with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) will be held at…

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