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March 18, 2011
Surrey Satellite’s Galileo Payload Passes Preliminary Design Review

Navigation payloads being developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for the full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellites have passed the preliminary design…

By Inside GNSS


March 18, 2011
NovAtel Announces FlexPak6 Enclosure Featuring OEM6 GNSS Technology

NovAtel FlexPak6 NovAtel Inc. has announced the launch of  its FlexPak6 GNSS enclosure, the first product to house the company’s new OEM628 multi-constellation…

By Inside GNSS


March 18, 2011
Galileo Security, Move to Prague Top List for Des Dorides of Europe’s GNSS Agency

House-hunting is turning out to be one of the first tasks facing Carlo des Dorides, new executive director of the European GNSS Agency,…

By Inside GNSS


March 17, 2011
TOPCON Launches GR-5 Integrated GNSS Receiver/Antenna

TPS GR-5 Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has launched its new GR-5 GNSS receiver using patented Fence Antenna technology and expanded tracking-channel support.

By Inside GNSS


March 16, 2011
LightSquared GPS Working Group Sends FCC Its First Report on Interference Assessment

• LightSquared first report to FCC (PDF)

By Inside GNSS


March 16, 2011
Trimble to Acquire Fugro’s OmniSTAR DGPS Service

Omnistar DGPS world map Trimble announced on March 16 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire certain assets related to…

By Inside GNSS


March 16, 2011
EGNOS Activates Safety of Life Service

EGNOS-equipped cockpit On March 2, ESSP (the European Satellite Services Provider) declared the safety-of-life (SoL) signal from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service…

By Inside GNSS


March 15, 2011
Korea Establishes National GNSS Research Center

Backed by a $17-million, nine-year publically funded budget, Korea has launched an inter-institutional National GNSS Research Center (NGRC) with an ambitious agenda of…

By Inside GNSS


March 15, 2011
Lockheed’s GPS III Team completes Key Flight Software Milestone

GPS III satellite. Lockheed Martin illustration Lockheed Martin announced today (March 15, 2011) that the team it leads in developing the U.S. Air…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
Japan Researchers Use GPS Permanent Array to Find Large Position Shifts From Devastating Earthquake

Based on data from Japan’s GPS Earth Observation Network System (GEONET), researchers at the Geospatial Information Authority of Japan (GSI) reported today (March…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
GNSS Receiver Clocks

Q: Does the magnitude of the GNSS receiver clock offset matter? A: It is well known that GNSS receiver clocks drift relative to…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
Integer Aperture Estimation

For the complete story, including figures, graphs, and images, please download the PDF of the article, above. Integer carrier-phase ambiguity resolution is the…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
Coherent Integration Time Limits

Equation: signal variance for a “ring of scatterers” model Indoor GNSS propagation environments are characterized by multiple reflected signal paths (multipath) terminating at…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
The Civilian Battlefield

Figures 1 & 2 For the complete story, including figures, graphs, and images, please download the PDF of the article, above. Growing dependence…

By Inside GNSS


March 14, 2011
GNSS Inside Mobile Phones

Figure 1 & Table 1 For the complete story, including figures, graphs, and images, please download the PDF of the article, above. Recent…

By Inside GNSS


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