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March 27, 2017

Copernicus Masters and European Satellite Navigation Competition Kick-off

Brussels Great Market Square. Wikimedia Commons photo by Paul IJsendoorn.

This year’s joint kick-off event of Europe’s major innovation competitions for space downstream applications — the Copernicus Masters and the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) — will take place April 5, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium.

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Copernicus Masters and European Satellite Navigation Competition Kick-off Set for April 5

Registration is taking place now for this year’s joint kick-off event of Europe’s major innovation competitions for space downstream applications — the Copernicus Masters and the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) — April 5, 2017 in Brussels, Belgium. The number of places is limited, so click here to secure a spot.

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March 15, 2017

Looking on the Bright Side from the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit

Pierre Delsaux speaks at the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit. Photo: Peter Gutierrez.

The opening plenary of the annual Satellite Navigation Summit in Munich tends to be a ritzy affair, taking place in the evening in an amazing converted chapel and featuring live musical interludes in between groups of speakers. This year the audience was treated to movie tunes, and the European Commission’s Pierre Delsaux had a suggestion for the play list.

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March 13, 2017

GSA Program Supports Development, Supply and Testing of Galileo Open Service

Before full service of Galileo Open Service (OS) can be achieved, a new generation of OS-Navigation Message Authentication-enabled user terminals must be developed, tested and implemented, says the European GNSS Agency (GSA).

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March 9, 2017

Spirent Test Solutions Help to Improve Maritime Safety

ACR’s ResQLink+ Buoyant Personal Locator Beacon.

Spirent Communications plc this week announced its test solutions have been used to improve maritime safety, and this development came about after much collaborative work designed to ensure that GNSS receivers are performing as needed, especially for rescue operations at sea.

Working with the Radio Technical Committee for Maritime Services (RTCM), Spirent has created test scenarios that simulate realistic satellite reception conditions at sea so that GPS distress beacon performance can be improved, allowing users to be rescued faster by search and rescue organizations.

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March 1, 2017

Campaign Allows eCall Device Manufacturers to Pre-Test Galileo, EGNOS Compatibility

Galileo search and rescue beacon. GSA Photo.

In effort to improve safety, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) has officially launched the Galileo and EGNOS (European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service) test campaign for eCall devices, which allows eCall device manufacturers to pre-test Galileo and EGNOS compatibility prior to type approval.

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February 27, 2017

Comments on Galileo Waiver Praise Benefits, Flag Future Complications

The Federal Communications Commission is being asked to choose between the immediate benefits of officially improving U.S. satellite navigation receivers and the possibility that, in doing so, it may raise interference levels in a neighboring band or make it harder to develop alternative uses for those adjacent frequencies.

By Dee Ann Divis

February 17, 2017

Geoscience Australia, New Zealand, Lockheed Martin all Part of Second-Generation SBAS Research Project

It’s been a big couple of weeks for second-generation satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) technology and for Bethesda, Maryland-based global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin.

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February 15, 2017

GNSS Technology Helping 112 Calls in Europe Save Lives

The European Union (EU) had much reason to celebrate on February 11, a day in which it celebrated 112 Day in recognition of the single European emergency phone number system that uses Advanced Mobile Location (AML) to receive location information from mobile phones.

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February 13, 2017

Galileo, EGNOS Network Use Demonstrating Improved Train Control in Parts of Europe

With a goal of higher rail safety, modernization of local lines, lower costs and improvement of performance for 28,000 kilometers of lines in Europe, the European project ERSAT EAV has been evaluating the adoption of the European satellite system for the local rail networks.

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February 10, 2017

Galileo’s Commercial Service Implementing Decision Adoption to Bring Added Value to Users

Two Galileo satellites now transmitting navigation signals. Image source: ESA.

This week’s announcement of the adoption of the Galileo Commercial Service Implementing Decision represents an opportunity for Galileo to differentiate itself from other systems and offer users an added value to the standard positioning services already available, says the European GNSS Agency (GSA).

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January 26, 2017

European GNSS Agency’s Second Galileo Hackathon

After a successful first GSA Galileo Hackathon, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is busy making plans for its next adventure in app building, scheduled to coincide with infoShare 2017, May 17-19 in Gdańsk, Poland.

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January 25, 2017

Second Galileo Hackathon Expects to Produce New Innovative Applications

After a successful first GSA Galileo Hackathon, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) is busy making plans for its next adventure in app building, scheduled to coincide with infoShare 2017, May 17-19 in Gdańsk, Poland.

Last year teams of passionate coders and geo-enthusiasts from around the world gathered to compete during the first event, which served as an opportunity to showcase coding skills, connect with the Geo-IoT (Internet of Things) app development community, and gain a competitive insight on what Galileo location-based services (LBS) can bring to your mobile device.

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Copernicus Masters and European Satellite Navigation Competition Kick-off

Copernicus Masters and European Satellite Navigation Competition Kick-off Set for April 5

Looking on the Bright Side from the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit

GSA Program Supports Development, Supply and Testing of Galileo Open Service

Spirent Test Solutions Help to Improve Maritime Safety

Campaign Allows eCall Device Manufacturers to Pre-Test Galileo, EGNOS Compatibility

Comments on Galileo Waiver Praise Benefits, Flag Future Complications

Geoscience Australia, New Zealand, Lockheed Martin all Part of Second-Generation SBAS Research Project

GNSS Technology Helping 112 Calls in Europe Save Lives

Galileo, EGNOS Network Use Demonstrating Improved Train Control in Parts of Europe

Galileo’s Commercial Service Implementing Decision Adoption to Bring Added Value to Users

European GNSS Agency’s Second Galileo Hackathon

Second Galileo Hackathon Expects to Produce New Innovative Applications