The European Space Agency (ESA) has reported its first successful reception of triple-frequency signals from a Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) spacecraft. The weekend…
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LightSquared today (December 21, 2011) asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to confirm the company’s right to use spectrum licensed to it and…
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Air Force Space Commander Gen. William Shelton at House Armed Services subcommittee hearing Tests of LightSquared’s proposed wireless broadband transmissions in the lower…
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GPS III pathfinder satellite testbed. Lockheed Martin photo The Lockheed Martin team developing the U.S. Air Force’s next-generation GPS satellites (GPS Block III)…
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The PRN 11E5b autocorrelation function as monitored by TAS-I receiver (x axis represents chip spacing y, time in seconds). [Updated December 14, 2011]…
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A survey of 140 attendees at last week’s European Navigation Conference (ENC 2011) in London, England, produced a fascinating assessment of GNSS expectations…
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Long March 3-A launcher carrying the 10th Compass/Beidou2 satellite (Xinhuanet photo) China launched its 10th Compass/ BeiDou-2 GNSS satellite this morning (December 2,…
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The European Commission has introduced free, downloadable and ready-to-use software tools to help anyone develop enhanced location and timing applications that harness the…
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Paul Weissenberg of the European Commission’s Enterprise and Industry directorate After years of arduous political navigation filled with delays and disappointments, Europe’s GNSS…
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A GPS app on a Japanese smartphone. The GPS Council there told the FCC that any signal degradation could jeopardize the Global Positioning…
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Spirent Communications has announced the launch of its new automation and reporting tool, TestDrive-GNSS for SimGEN- and SimREPLAYplus-controlled GNSS test systems. TestDrive-GNSS automates…
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Russia launched a single GLONASS-M satellite into orbit on Monday (November 28, 2011) from the Plesetsk space center north of Moscow. This is…
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[Updated November 25 2011] For those wondering what to do on Black Friday … In another holiday special, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
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Return to main article: “Network RTK and Reference Station Configuration”
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Mattia De Agostino is a post-doctoral research assistant at the Politecnico di Torino (Italy) from which he received a Ph.D. degree in geomatics…
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