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April 23, 2012
3rd China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC 2012)

Last year’s Satellite Navigation Conference, held in Shanghai. Opening Day Video (CNTV) The CSNC, now in its third year, is an open platform…

By Inside GNSS


April 21, 2012
Geospatial World Forum 2012

Pres. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam, the “Missile Man of India,” in 2008. (wikicommons) The 2012 Geospatial World Forum will be held at…

By Inside GNSS


April 21, 2012
2012 European Frequency and Time Forum

The 26th European Frequency and Time Forum will take place at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden on April 24, 25 and…

By Inside GNSS


April 21, 2012
IEEE/ ION PLANS 2012: Position Location And Navigation System Conference 2012

PLANS conference venue This biennial conference and industry exhibition explores the field of navigation—from fundamental research, to applications, to field test results. It…

By Inside GNSS


April 21, 2012
European Geosciences Union General Assembly 2012

Austria Center Vienna The EGU General Assembly 2012 will be held at the Austria Center Vienna from April 22 to April 27. The…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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,…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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…

By Inside GNSS


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