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November 17, 2012
They’re Back: LightSquared Tries New Route to Wireless Broadband, Later for Nearby GPS Band

With the election finally over, and the chain of decision makers now largely clear, the spectrum war between LightSquared and the GPS community…

By Inside GNSS


November 16, 2012
GSA, French Officials Break Ground on Galileo Security Monitoring Center

GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides, ESNC photo by Simone Hörmann European officials broke ground today (November 16, 2012) at the site of…

By Inside GNSS


November 16, 2012
Hemisphere GPS Seeks to Spin Off OEM GNSS Business, Move HQ to Kansas

[Updated November 17, 2012] Hemisphere GPS, the latest incarnation of a home-grown Canadian company, has announced plans to close its Calgary, Alberta, headquarters…

By Inside GNSS


November 16, 2012
Precision GPS Landing System Receives DoD Recognition

A U.S. Navy program that uses technology developed by a Raytheon-led team to land aircraft in harsh weather has been recognized with a…

By Inside GNSS


November 15, 2012
Fifth Conference on European Union Space Policy

The 5th conference on European Union space policy will take place at the European Commission’s Charlemagne Building, in Brussels, Belgium on January 29…

By Inside GNSS


November 15, 2012
Winter Courses in Santa Monica: NavtechGPS

NavtechGPS presents a series of GNSS courses at the Doubletree Suites by Hilton in Santa Monica, California from December 3 through December 7,…

By Inside GNSS


November 15, 2012
2012 European Satellite Navigation Competition Results

The 2012 Galileo Master receiving his prize: from left, Thorsten Rudolph, managing director of Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen (AZO); Carlo des Dorides, executive director,…

By Inside GNSS


November 14, 2012
Long-Awaited Compass-BeiDou ICD May Appear by End of This Year

Yang Yuanxi, China National Administration of GNSS and Applications China finally appears ready to issue a comprehensive document providing specifications for the Compass/BeiDou-2…

By Inside GNSS


November 14, 2012
Digital Satellite Navigation and Geophysics: A Practical Guide with GNSS Signal Simulator and Receiver Laboratory

Digital Satellite Navigation and Geophysics: A Practical Guide with GNSS Signal Simulator and Receiver Laboratory by Ivan G. Petrovski and Toshiaki Tsujii Cambridge…

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November 14, 2012
GNSS Positioning and Precise Timing

Francine Vannicola, Naval Research Laboratory As the forthcoming “Time and Navigation” opening next March at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum reminds…

By Inside GNSS


November 14, 2012
Non-Gaussian Noises

View the Equations for this article Various designs of inertial/GNSS integrated navigation systems exist, with different architectures depending on the quality of sensors,…

By Inside GNSS


November 14, 2012
Navipedia — The GNSS Wiki

Javier Ventura-Traveset introduces Navipedia at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit on March 14, 2012. He is responsible for managing Navipedia’s development as well…

By Inside GNSS


November 14, 2012
LTE, Positioning, and the Implications for GNSS Over-the-Air Testing

FIGURE 1: (top) Device without case. (bottom) Device with case. Long Term Evolution (LTE) technology in mobile communications, often called 4G, is making…

By Inside GNSS


November 12, 2012
Royal Institute of Navigation NAV Series: Unmanned Air Vehicles

UAVs: Sharing the Airspace is the topic of this one-day workshop on February 12 at the National Physical Laboratories, Teddington. It is part…

By Inside GNSS


November 12, 2012
Royal Institute of Navigation NAV Series: Maritime

One in a series of NAV conferences sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation, this all-day event on February 21, 2013 will take…

By Inside GNSS


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