Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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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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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