Lake Starnberg The 2012 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 in Starnberg, near Munich, Germany. …

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GPS III satellite. Lockheed Martin illustration The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a $21.5-million contract to provide a launch and checkout…

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Baska, Krk Island beach This annual seminar on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the…

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When President Obama signed the $1 trillion dollar federal appropriations bill just before Christmas, he also inked into law a provision further protecting…

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If the readership of insidegnss.com news is any indication, 2011 was the year of LightSquared. Articles about the would-be wireless broadband company that…

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In a meeting Friday (December 30, 2011), Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin told the newly appointed deputy prime minister, Vladislav Surkov, that he…

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[Updated January 3, 2012] China released a long-awaited “test version” interface control document (ICD) for its Compass (BeiDou-2) GNSS system today (December 27,…

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Raven Industries Electronic Systems Division has announced a new distributor relationship that will offer the company’s differential GPS (DGPS) products through NavtechGPS, of…

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Spirent Communications has launched of a subscription service for live GNSS (GPS, GLONASS, and QZSS) environmental-capture data set samples, recorded at major locations…

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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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