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April 13, 2010
FAA Predicts Erosion of GPS WAAS Service Due to Intelsat GEO Failure

Galaxy 15 satellite under construction. Orbital Sciences photo [updated April 13] Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) officials say that loss of control over an…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2010
ESA Issues Call for Papers for NAVITEC 2010

Sponsors of NAVITEC 2010, the fifth European Space Agency (ESA) Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies, have issued a call for papers for the…

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2010
Averna Adds Telogis GeoBase GPS Routing Functionality to NAVASIM Simulator

Averna has announced that its Universal Receiver Tester (URT) NAVigation Advanced SIMulator (NAVASIM) now includes the GeoBase toolkit from Telogis.

By Inside GNSS


April 12, 2010
GPS Partnership Council Meeting 2010

The tenth GPS Partnership Council meeting will take place at the Space and Missile Systems Center, Los Angeles Air Force Base, on May…

By Inside GNSS


April 11, 2010
Full-Stop Shopping for GPS Jammers on Google? Why Didn’t We Think of That?

GPS/cell phone jammer It sounded like an excellent idea: convince Google to thwart on-line searches for GPS jammers, and, according to Bob Brewin,…

By Inside GNSS


April 10, 2010
U.S. Invites Comments for Easing GPS SVN49 Signal Anomaly

(This article first appeared in the March 31 Inside GNSS SIGNALS eNewsletter) The GPS Wing is in the middle of a yearlong process…

By Inside GNSS


April 10, 2010
GNSS Opportunities Help Drive UK to Set Up National Space Agency

British Prime Minister Gordon Brown visits the Geospatial Building at the University of Nottingham. Photo courtesy of GRACE (This article first appeared in…

By Inside GNSS


April 9, 2010
Canada to Decommission DGPS System

CDGPS coverage map. NRCan image The Canada-wide DGPS Service (CDGPS), a free GNSS augmentation system initiated by the Canadian Council on Geomatics (CCOG)…

By Inside GNSS


April 1, 2010
KVH Launches New FOG/MEMS IMU

KVH Industries, Inc., of Middletown, Rhode Island, has introduced its new CG-5100 inertial measurement unit (IMU), which combines KVH fiber optic gyros (FOGs)…

By Inside GNSS


March 31, 2010
National Inventors Hall of Fame 2010 Inductees Include TIMATION Developer

Listen to TIMATION II, recorded September 30, 1969 on 137.380 MHz in AM/FM by Mike D. Kenny* Roger Easton, who led development of…

By Inside GNSS


March 31, 2010
GNSS’s Contribution to Albion’s Utopia

City of the Future (Philip Hone Williams, eyewoo.com) A 77-page report outlining UK’s Space Innovation and Growth Strategy 2010 to 2030 concludes with…

By Inside GNSS


March 31, 2010
U.S. Air Force Invites Comments for Easing GPS SVN49 Signal Anomaly

The GPS Wing is in the middle of a yearlong process designed to sort out the trade-offs among a set of at least…

By Inside GNSS


March 30, 2010
The Ghost Writer: GPS Thickens the Plot

Always good to see GNSS play a big part in the storyline of popular fiction, even when it exhibits qualities unmatched by performance…

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March 30, 2010
2010 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (PIN)

“Science City” campus of ETH, Zurich The International 2010 PIN Conference and industry exhibition will take place at the Swiss Federal Institute of…

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March 29, 2010
European Space Weather Week 2010

Solar flare (NASA) The 7th Space Weather Week will take place at Congress Centre Oud Sint-Jan in Bruges, Belgium from November 15 to…

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