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April 28, 2011
FY11 Budget Battle Over, GPS Looks Ahead to FY12

Resolution of the between Congressional Republicans and Democrats that threatened a shutdown of the federal government has clarified the picture for military GPS…

By Inside GNSS


April 26, 2011
New Advanced Receiver Course Featured in NavtechGPS July Seminar

The GNSS signal spectrum in neon NavtechGPS, the Washington D.C.-based GNSS technology trainers, will introduce a new advanced receiver course for engineers and…

By Inside GNSS


April 26, 2011
10 High School Teams to Test Robots at the Smithsonian in the 2011 Mini Urban Challenge

Pace High School “Catastrophic” team, the 2010 winner Ten Lego kits transformed into autonomous robotic vehicles will gather, with their high school student…

By Inside GNSS


April 23, 2011
GPS-Guided Honeywell MAV Aids in Japan Nuclear Plant Emergency

T-Hawk MAV. Honeywell photo A GPS-guided T-Hawk Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) more frequently used in combat reconnaissance missions in Iraq and Afghanistan is…

By Inside GNSS


April 19, 2011
Trimble Announces Plans to Buy Ashtech

Continuing a series of acquisitions in recent years, Trimble announced today (April 19, 2011) that the Sunnyvale, California–based company has entered into a…

By Inside GNSS


April 18, 2011
Keeping the Spoofs Out

The demand for techniques capable of authenticating the GNSS signals and detecting simulation attacks (spoofing) has increased exponentially in the last years, mainly…

By Inside GNSS


April 18, 2011
Modernization Times

Enterprise Baseline Schedule Col. Bernie Gruber, commander of the GPS Directorate since June 2010, works in a busy place. Through its various incarnations…

By Inside GNSS


April 18, 2011
Finding the Interference

Working Papers explore the technical and scientific themes that underpin GNSS programs and applications. This regular column is coordinated by  Prof. Dr.-Ing. Günter…

By Inside GNSS


April 16, 2011
U.S. Department of Justice Seeks Supreme Court Review of GPS Surveillance Issue

On Friday (April 15, 2011) the Obama administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up the question of whether prolonged police surveillance…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2011
Applanix Launches Version 5 of POS MV GNSS-Inertial Hydrographic Survey System

Applanix POS MV V5 Applanix has released Version 5 of the company’s POS MV (Position and Orientation System for Marine Vessels), the next…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2011
Septentrio’s AsteRx3 Receiver Tracks First GLONASS CDMA Signal on L3

Figure 1. GLONASS-K1 AsteRx3 measurements: C/N0 in dB-Hz of L1-C/A and L3 CDMA Septentrio has announced that the Belgian GNSS manufacturer has successfully…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2011
Geneq Announced Dual-Frequency RTK GPS, OmniSTAR HP Receivers

Geneq SXBlue IIIL Geneq Inc., a Montreal, Quebec, Canada, manufacturer, has introduced two new GPS products. The SXBlue III-L is a compact GPS…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2011
NavCom Introduces Multi-GNSS SF-3040 Receiver

NavCom Technology’s SF-3040 Receiver NavCom Technology, Inc., has launched its 66-channel, SF-3040 pole-mount receiver, featuring StarFire/real-time kinematic (RTK) multi-GNSS capabilities and optimized for…

By Inside GNSS


April 10, 2011
China Launches 8th Compass/BeiDou-2 Satellite — an IGSO

Compass IGSO launch, April 10 2011 (Xinhua news photo) Xinhua, the Chinese news agency, reported today (April 10, 2011) that China launched the…

By Inside GNSS


April 9, 2011
Hey, Kids! Get Your Names on Europe’s Galileo Satellites!

If you are lucky enough to be nine to eleven years old and living in Belgium or Bulgaria, you could get your name…

By Inside GNSS


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