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July 26, 2011
Ronald Borsato

Ronald Borsato is principal architect at Spirent Communications with 17 years of wireless industry experience. Borsato is vice-chair of the CTIA’s ERP Ad-Hoc…

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July 26, 2011
Peter Boulton

Peter Boulton is the CTO for positioning products at Spirent Communications and has spent 24 years in the GNSS simulation and test industry….

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July 21, 2011
NovAtel Launches Business Card–Sized OEM 615 GNSS Receiver

NovAtel OEM615 receiver NovAtel, Inc. has introduced the newest member of its OEM6 receiver family: the OEM615. Measuring only 46x71x11 millimeters (1.81×2.79×0.43 inches)…

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July 20, 2011
EC Official Adds Galileo, EGNOS Worries to FCC’s LightSquared-GPS Deliberations

European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS). ESA illustration Citing European Space Agency (ESA) studies that showed “harmful interference” to Galileo receivers operating up…

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July 16, 2011
Successful Launch for Second GPS Block IIF Satellite

Launch of GPS IIF-2. United Launch Alliance photo by Pat Corkery [updated July 16] Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the…

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July 12, 2011
Chinese Consultancy Charts Evolution of Compass / Beidou Industry

Regional centers of Compass industry in China. CCID Consulting graphic A Beijing consulting firm estimates the size of China’s Compass/BeiDou domestic industry was…

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July 11, 2011
GNSS-Based Attitude Determination

FIGURE 1: Heading, bank and elevation angles of an actual platform carrying two perpendicular two meter-long baselines. The attitude solutions are shown for…

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July 11, 2011
What is a virtual reference station and how does it work?

Q: What is a virtual reference station and how does it work? A: To reach centimeter-level — or even better — accuracy of…

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July 11, 2011
China Satellite Conference 2011

Hotel Nikko New Century in Haidian, Beijing This officially sanctioned conference and equipment exhibtion addresses applications, technologies and trends for China’s satellite communications,…

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July 11, 2011
Berlin GNSS Symposium 2011

Rathaus Wilmersdorf The International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-based and Ground-based Augmentation Systems and Aplications will take place at the Wilmersdorf…

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July 10, 2011
SIRGAS 2011

El Fortin monument in Heredia, Costa Rica SIRGAS 2011,  the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system…

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July 10, 2011
2011 East Coast Seminars: NavtechGPS

NavtechGPS will offer its 2011 east coast GNSS technical seminars at the Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland from Monday, July 11 through Friday,…

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July 8, 2011
NTIA Asks FCC to Delay LightSquared Rollout

Lawrence E. Strickling, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) [Updated July 9, 2011] The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on July 6…

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July 7, 2011
Sixth International Committee on GNSS Meeting Begins September 5 in Tokyo

Mita Kaigisho, site of the ICG-6 meeting ICG-6, the sixth meeting of the UN’s Sixth Meeting of the International Committee on GNSS, will…

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July 6, 2011
ESA International Summer School on Navigation Satellite Systems 2011

Galileo Test and Development Environment (iFEN photo) The 2011 International Summer School on GNSS will take place July 20 to July 30 in…

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