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

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

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

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Catamaran Hotel, San Diego The Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 24-26 at the Catamaran Hotel on Mission…

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Moscone Center The 2010 American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting will be held at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, California from Monday,…

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FIGURE 1: Screenshot of RF simulation software showing GPS + GLONASS + Galileo constellations In the first article in this series (Inside GNSS,…

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GNSS utilization of the S-band portion of the radio spectrum provides some challenges to designers of both GNSS navigation signals as well as…

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Lingotto Fiere, Turin/Torino, Italy The second European conference and exhibition on smart infrastructures, infomobility, telematics and Galileo and other GNSSes will take place…

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Prague Congress Centre The workshop on GNSS Applications for Human Benefit and Development is sponsored by the United Nations Office for Outer Space…

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Portland MAX light rail system We are counting down the days to the ION GNSS 2010, the biggest satellite navigation technical event of…

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QZSS satellite separaes from the launcher (photo by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries) (UPDATED September 27) Japan’s first quasi-zenith satellite launched successfully from the Tanegashima…

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The Portland skyline with a GPSIIF satellite is featured in the Inside GNSS booth at ION GNSS 2010 by Glen Gibbons Few would…

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Anthony Russo, director of the U.S. National Coordination Office (NCO) for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) The United States brought a strong…

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Eclipse II GNSS OEM Board Hemisphere GPS announced its next-generation Eclipse II GNSS receiver technology today (September 8, 2010) and the release of…

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A completely GPS-based navigation solution is generally not feasible in GNSS signal–challenged environments such as urban canyons. However, even in these difficult environments…

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