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October 12, 2010
OlinkStar Offers GNSS Products Using Current Compass/Beidou-2 Signals

OlinkStar CC100-BG Beidou-GPS module Despite the absence of official published specifications for China’s Compass/Beidou-2, a number of GNSS companies have announced plans to…

By Inside GNSS


October 11, 2010
Trimble Acquires Terralite Line from Novariant

Trimble has acquired the Terralite assets from Novariant, Inc., to expand the Sunnyvale, California–based company’s portfolio of positioning solutions.

By Inside GNSS


October 5, 2010
GAO on GPS (Again): Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist

A new report on the GPS program from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds the situation considerably improved from last year, when its…

By Inside GNSS


October 4, 2010
NovAtel, Hemisphere GPS Launch Rival Products

Calgary, Alberta: Canadian high-tech center and home to rivals NovAtel and Hemisphere GPS Two Canadian companies — NovAtel and Hemisphere GPS — that…

By Inside GNSS


October 2, 2010
USA Challenge GNSS Applications Contest Picks Five Finalists

[UPDATED Oct. 21, 2010] Contestants from all over the United States and the world have sent in their new GNSS apps to the…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
GNSS Hotspots | October 2010

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


October 1, 2010
Launch Fever

It is not all about the satellites, of course. And, despite the thrill of launches — the Fourth of July and every other…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
U.S. Offers Bilateral Talks on GNSS

Tony Russo, Director, U.S. National Space-Based PNT Coordination Office Return to main article: "NaviForum Shanghai 2010" The United States brought a strong message…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
Jean-Michel Perre

Jean-Michel Perre received his engineer diploma in radio communications at the Ecole Superieure d’Electricite (SUPELEC), Paris. He joined Thales in 1994 to work…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
Toshiaki Tsujii

Toshiaki Tsujii is a head of the Navigation Technology Section, Aviation Program Group, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), where he has been investigating…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
Donald Venable

Donald Venable is an associate electronics engineer at the Air Force Research Laboratory, Reference Systems Branch, at Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. He received…

By Inside GNSS


October 1, 2010
ITN 2010: Infrastructure, Telematics, Navigation

Lingotto Fiere, Turin/Torino, Italy ITN 2010 – Infrastructure, Telematics & Navigation will take place in Turin, Italy, on November 11–12 at the Lingotto…

By Inside GNSS


September 30, 2010
Raytheon Completes GPS OCX Integrated Baseline Review

The U.S. Air Force and the Raytheon Company team developing the GPS Advanced Control Segment (OCX) has successfully completed an integrated baseline review…

By Inside GNSS


September 30, 2010
Senate Committee Approves 2011 GPS Appropriations

Recent action by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) Defense spending bill (S. 3800) that essentially accepts…

By Inside GNSS


September 28, 2010
Norway, EC Sign Galileo Agreement

Norway and the European Commission signed a cooperation agreement on satellite navigation last week (September 22) that will make the Scandinavian nation —…

By Inside GNSS


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