College Hall at Cranwell, Lincolnshire, EnglandTerry Moore will speak about "What Next for GNSS" at the Royal Institute of Navigation Anderson Memorial Lecture at Whittle Hall, RAF Cranwell, Sleaford, Lincs, U.K. on March 2, 2015.
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The Waldspirale in DarmstadtThe 2015 CERGAL conference will be held in Darmstadt, Germany on July 7 and 8, 2015.
Qualification and certification of mission and safety critical applications are major milestones in the successful operational rollout of Satellite Navigation systems like GPS/EGNOS, Galileo, GLONASS and Beidou. This symposium will concentrate on measures already established and future activities that will assure SATNAV systems certification and operational safety.
This year’s main topics include:
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Rathaus (City Hall) in ViennaThe 2015 European Geosciences Union General Assembly and exhibition will take place in the Austria Center Vienna (ACV) in Vienna, Austria, from April 12 – 17, 2015.
The early registration deadline is March 12, 2015. The program will be available after February 25.
Session topics of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS include:
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Altes Schloss, Stuttgart, GermanyThe 2015 InterGEO Trade Fair and Conference for Geodesy, Geoinformation and Land Management will take place at Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH in Stuttgart, Germany from September 15 to 17, 2015.
It attracts 16,000 visitors from 92 countries who work in the surveying, geoinformation, remote sensing and photogrammetry fields. This is the event’s 21st year.
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Bayshore Boulevard, Tampa, FloridaION GNSS+ 2015 will take place at the Tampa Convention Center in Tampa, Florida from September 14 through 18. Tutorials will take place on September 14 and 15. The exhibit hall will be open on Wednesday and Thursday.
The Abstract Submission Deadline has passed.
Early bird registration ends August 14, 2015.
The conference is now called ION GNSS+ to highlight its expanded emphasis on GNSS and the rapidly evolving field of alternative navigation methods.
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New competitive demands and regulatory requirements are driving financial firms around the world to use highly precise timestamps on incoming information and transactions, a trend likely to push firms to adopt a common time source like GPS.

Hexagon AB’s HxGN Live 2015 conference will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 1 – 4, 2015.
Registration is now open. Priority Rate ends January 12, and the Early Bird rate end February 23, 2015.
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The Institute of Navigation’s 2015 International Technical Meeting will take place January 26-28 at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Hotel in Dana Point California.
Online registration is available. Discounted Registration and hotel reservations end January 5.
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Galileo satellite geometry and received signal strength for the December 9 fix using the first Galileo FOC satellite, as received by the Septentrio Test User Receiver at ESTEC. The first Galileo FOC satellite corresponds to E19 on the left display; IOV PFM to E11, IOV FM2 to E12 and IOV FM3 to E19. ESA figureGalileo’s fifth satellite (and first fully operational capability, or FOC, spacecraft) — recently salvaged from an incorrect orbit — has been combined with three predecessors to provide its very first position fix.
Test receivers at the European Space Agency (ESA) ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and at the Galileo In-Orbit Test station at Redu, Belgium, received the signals at 12:48 GMT on December 9 from a quartet of Galileo satellites and fixed their horizontal positions to better than two meters.
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Ronald Repasi, deputy chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, speaking at a 2012 hearing of House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and TechnologyA rule largely aimed at opening trade in telecommunication services will require Russia and other international providers of GNSS services to apply for authorization before their navigation signals can be legally used in the United States, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has told GPS experts on the Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board.
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Transport Canada rules on UAV operationCanada has lifted a key filing requirement on professional drone operators, allowing firms flying small, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) to conduct for-profit flights without prior approval as long as they follow a lengthy set of rules and obtain insurance.
By Inside GNSSEurope’s fifth Galileo satellite, one of two delivered into a wrong orbit by a Russian Soyuz-Fregat launcher in August, transmitted its first navigation signal in space on Saturday (November 29, 2014) after reaching its new target orbit.
According to the European Space Agency (ESA), a detailed test campaign is under way now the satellite has reached a more suitable orbit for navigation purposes.
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