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June 7, 2011
Genachowski Defends FCC Role in LightSquared, GPS Interference Controversy in Letter to Senator

A belated response from Julius Genachowski, Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman to Republican Senator Charles Grassley’s request for documents surrounding the LightSquared effort…

By Inside GNSS


June 7, 2011
Inertial Sensors and Systems 2011 (fomerly Symposium Gyro Technology)

An informal discussion at the 2010 symposium. The Symposium Gyro Technology has changed its name to Inertial Sensors and Systems because of the…

By Inside GNSS


June 6, 2011
IFEN: SX-NSR Receivers Shipping; Final GATE Certification

IFEN’s SX-NSR Multi-Channel, Multi-GNSS Receiver IFEN GmbH has begun shipping the first units of its new second-generation, multi-frequency and multi-GNSS software receiver —…

By Inside GNSS


June 6, 2011
Qualcomm Adds GLONASS Capability to Chipsets

Qualcomm Incorporated has announced the company’s product support for the Russian GLONASS satellite system to enable the use of both GPS and GLONASS…

By Inside GNSS


June 2, 2011
Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski: First Woman to Assume Command of SMC, Home of GPS Directorate

Lt. Gen. Ellen Pawlikowsk. USAF photo On Friday (June 3, 2011), Lt. Gen. Ellen M. Pawlikowski will assume command of the Space and…

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June 1, 2011
NovAtel, QinetiQ Collaborate on Anti-Jam GPS System

NovAtel Inc. in collaboration with QinetiQ Ltd. has developed GAJT (pronounced “Gadget”), the world’s first single-enclosure GPS anti-jam system small enough for light…

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May 30, 2011
Günter W. Hein

Em. Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Guenter W. Hein is Professor Emeritus of Excellence at the University FAF Munich. He was ESA Head…

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May 28, 2011
Test Results: LightSquared Would Cause Serious Interference to GPS Receivers

Las Vegas site for LightSquared/GPS tests Tests of GPS receiver vulnerability to transmissions from terrestrial base stations in the proposed LightSquared 4G/LTE broadband…

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May 27, 2011
Make GPS Robust, Says AMS Report on Satellite Navigation and Space Weather

A new report by the American Meteorological Society (AMS) highlights the vulnerability of GPS-dependent critical infrastructures to disruptions caused by solar flares and…

By Inside GNSS


May 27, 2011
RTCA Report Show Serious LightSquared Interference to GPS Aviation

An executive summary of a special report by RTCA Inc. Special Committee 159 released today (May 27, 2011) indicates that GPS aviation receivers…

By Inside GNSS


May 27, 2011
GPS Modernization on Agenda for June Space-Based PNT Advisory Board Meeting

The National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board will meet in Arlington, Virginia, on Thursday, June 9 and Friday June 10….

By Inside GNSS


May 25, 2011
Spirent GPS/GNSS Simulation Training Conference

Near Hotel Oranje (hotel photo) Spirent engineers will lead a two day training conference on the company’s simulation equipment at Hotel Oranje in…

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May 24, 2011
Septentrio Announces AsteRx-m ‘Ultra-Compact’ GPS/GLONASS RTK Receiver

Septentrio has announced plans to release the AsteRx-m, a low-power GPS/GLONASS dual-frequency RTK receiver that is smaller than a credit card. The new…

By Inside GNSS


May 24, 2011
Hemisphere Reports Revenue Jump, Profit for Q1 2011

Steve Koles, president & CEO, Hemisphere GPS Hemisphere GPS, Inc., has reported revenue growth of 41 percent and a return to profitability in…

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May 24, 2011
GNSS Hotspots | May 2011

One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859 1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman…

By Inside GNSS


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