China has taken the next step in developing its Compass GNSS system, launching the nascent system’s first medium Earth orbit (MEO) satellite into…

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A convergence of developments over the past few months has brought Europe’s Galileo program to the most critical passage of its history —…

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BlueTooth technology provider CSR, of Cambridge, United Kingdom, has acquired NordNav Technologies AB, of Sweden, and Cambridge Positioning Systems Ltd. (CPS) of also…

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Trimble of Sunnyvale, California, has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire publicly held @Road, Inc. of Fremont, California, and has purchased privately…

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The U.S. Air Force has awarded two $50 million contracts to Boeing and Lockheed Martin to execute a system design review for the…

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L-3 Interstate Electronics Corporation (IEC), Anaheim, California, has been awarded a preproduction contract for Advanced Three-Dimension Locators by the Department of Homeland Security…

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Calgary, Alberta, Canada’s NovAtel Inc. offers a new real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning solution, known as AdVance RTK, designed to enhance the precision and…

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Profi-T-Centre Ltd., a Russian business conferencing company, and IIR, a London, England–based business information, conferencing, and consulting firm, are organizing an International Satellite…

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Russia is showing ever-stronger signs of a serious intention of not merely restoring its GNSS system, GLONASS, but of turning it into a…

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The 14-year (and counting) history of Europe’s Galileo program has always made for a complex story line. And it’s not getting any simpler….

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The Loran terrestrial radionavigation system might well be pulled back from its 12-year-long dance on the brink of extinction, while the Nationwide Differential…

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China has confirmed what many have been expecting for some time: it will construct the world’s fourth GNSS system — joining the systems…

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As the clock runs out on the Galileo Joint Undertaking (GJU) that has guided the institutional development of the European GNSS program for…

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Successful launch of the second modernized Block IIR satellite, IIR-15(M2), on September 25 and scheduling of another IIR-M launch on November 14 underlines…

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The GPS Block IIF program continues to lose ground, with first launch of a satellite now projected as no sooner than May 2008…

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