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April 21, 2012
Parts Testing Drives Up GPS III Program Costs, Forces Prime to Forego $70 Million Incentive Fee

The core structure of the GPS III Non-Flight Satellite Testbed (GNST) stands vertical in Lockheed Martin’s GPS III Processing Facility. LM photo. An…

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April 21, 2012
Help DARPA Boldly Go Where No One Has Gone Before

DARPA example of a robot working in a dangerous area We certainly hope the competitors in DARPA’s Robotics Challenge hardwire Isaac Asimov’s First…

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April 20, 2012
U.S. Satellite Export Policy Report Retains GPS Restrictions

The Global Positioning System and GPS receivers show up several times as items of special concern in a report to Congress submitted Wednesday…

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April 19, 2012
ESA International Summer School 2012 on GNSS

The European Space Agency’s annual navigation summer school offers students from around the world a chance for a thorough grounding in satellite navigation…

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April 19, 2012
SSTL Delivers Nav Payload for First Galileo FOC Satellite

Soyuz VS01, the first Soyuz flight from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, on its launch pad at Europe’s Spaceport before October 21, 2011,…

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April 17, 2012
ESA Awards Atomic Clock Contract to SpectraTime

SpectraTime has announced it has been awarded a €1-million contract to improve rubidium atomic frequency standards (RAFS) as part of the European Space…

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April 16, 2012
GPS III Satellite System and GPS OCX Have a Conversation

Raytheon Company and Lockheed Martin have successfully completed the first significant integration milestone between Raytheon’s Next Generation GPS Operational Control System (OCX) and…

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April 6, 2012
China Plans Dual Launches of Compass-BeiDou MEOs

News sources indicate that the first Beidou-2 dual launch will take place in April or possibly May. A Long March 3B rocket will…

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April 3, 2012
RF Spectrum Allocations, Interference, and GNSS Receiver Design

Patrick Fenton, Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, NovAtel, Inc. In the RF (radio frequency) spectrum between 3 kHz and 300 GHz, national…

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April 3, 2012
Inertial technology, MEMS, and GNSS

Mike Perlmutter, Principal, Skylight Navigation A growing awareness of the limitations and vulnerabilities of GNSS — along with advances in inertial designs and…

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April 3, 2012
Mike Perlmutter

Mike Perlmutter has worked in the inertial navigation field for more than 30 years and was a key contributor to Yole Développement’s IMU…

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April 3, 2012
Multiple GNSS: Compatibility & Interoperability

Dr. Anthony Pratt, Orbstar International Ltd. In the beginning, there was just the Global Positioning System. But it provided an astounding start to…

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April 3, 2012
GNSS Modernization

Christopher Hegarty Perhaps for the first time in the nearly 40 years of satellite navigation, all four GNSS programs and regional systems appear…

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March 31, 2012
GNSS Hotspots | March 2012

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 30, 2012
Kannan Muthuraman

Kannan Muthuraman received his undergraduate degree in electronics and communication from the College of Engineering Guindy, Anna University, India, and his doctoral degree…

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