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February 1, 2012

OHB and SSTL Win Second Round of Contracts for 8 Galileo FOC Satellites

The European Space Agency (ESA) today (February 2, 2012) signed a contract to build a further eight Galileo satellites, alongside other agreements to modify Europe’s Ariane 5 launcher to carry four navigation satellites at a time.

The signing took place at the European Commission’s center in London, England, in the presence of European Commission Vice-President Antonio Tajani and UK Universities and Science Minister David Willetts.

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January 17, 2012

ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies

Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam

A special session on Satellite Navigation Technologies will be held as part of the 2012 International Conference on Communications and Electronics (ICCE) at the Saigon Morin Hotel in Hue, Vietnam on August 1-3.

Because South East Asia will be covered by all of the global and regional satellite navigation systems by 2015, the region will experience the multi-GNSS environment at its edge.

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After Longitude – Modern Navigation in Context

Cadets with sextants circa 1930 (from National Maritime Museum collections)

The "After Longitude" symposium covers what happened in between Harrison’s clocks and geospatial PNT. It is sponsored by the British National Maritime Museum and the Royal Institute of Navigation.

The event takes place on March 22 and 23 at the National Maritime Museum in Greenwich.

Speakers on Thursday, March 22 will cover the earlier history of navigation. On Friday, topics include:

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January 16, 2012

Galileo Application Congress Prague 2012

The Czech prime minister, Petr Nečas and Antonio Tajani, the European Commission vice president in charge of the Galileo program, will keynote this conference at the Prague Marriott Hotel on January 26-27, 2012.

The event celebrates the partnership between the Czech Republic and the European GNSS Agency (GSA) which will relocate from Brussels to Prague this year.

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FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

Monte Mario, the highest hill in Rome

A special seminar for geodesists will take place in Rome, Italy on May 4 and 5, just before the 35th FIG general assembly and working week.

The conference venue is the Cavalieri hotel on Monte Mario near the Vatican.

It is organized by the International Association of Geodesy (IAG), the surveyors’ international association (FIG) and the UN’s International Committee on GNSS (ICG).

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ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

Roma eventi – Fontana di Trevi conference center

The first IEEE-AESS ESTEL Conference (Europe Space and Satellite Telcommunications) will be held at Roma Eventi – Fontana di Trevi
Conference Centre from October 2 through 5, 2012.

It is an offshoot of the Space Applications and Technologies (SAT) Expo, covering telecommunications via satellite for advanced services and applications, architectures, technologies and terminals.

The conference will be held in English. Abstract submissions have closed.

The technical program will cover five major areas:

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Hexagon 2012

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s second international conference this summer.

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Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

European Space Agency’s ESTEC in Noordwijk

NavtechGPS will offer a four-day public venue course from March 5 though 8 at the European Space Agency’s Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands.

"Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals" (Course 541) will be taught by John Betz, MITRE and James Sennott, Tracking and Imaging Systems, Inc.

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January 13, 2012

Contact!

A photo of the NavSAS group (December 2011)

On December 12, 2011, one of the two Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites launched on October 21 — the Galileo- ProtoFlight Model (PFM) spacecraft — started transmitting its payload signal on the E1 band over Europe.

That same day NavSAS researchers were able to acquire and track the E1 signal (Galileo Code Number 11) beginning at 14:46:15 CET. Two days later, on December 14, the E5 signal became available as well.

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January 12, 2012

2012 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)

UNSW, the conference venue, is 4.3 miles (7 km) from Sydney city center.

The 2012 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN) will take place at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia From November 13 to 15.

The keynote, by Google’s Waleed Kadous, is "The Indoor Tipping Point: Lessons from Indoor at Scale."

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2012 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service (UPINLBS)

The Hilton Helsinki Strand at night

UPINLBS 2012 will take place on the Gulf of Finland waterfront at the Hilton Strand in Helsinki, Finland on October 3 and 4. The conference venue is 1/2 mile (0.8 km ) from the center of the city.

John Raquet, U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology ; Mark Petovello, University of Calgary and Rafael Lucas, GNSS Evolution and Strategy Division, European Space Agency will deliver the keynotes.

The topics are:

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January 11, 2012

ICL-GNSS 2012: Localization and GNSS Conference

Lake Starnberg

The 2012 International Conference on Localization and GNSS will take place from June 25 to 27 in Starnberg, near Munich, Germany.

ICL-GNSS 2012 will address the latest research on satellite-based and complementary positioning techniques for use outdoors and indoors, and on different platforms such as stand-alone
navigators, PDAs and mobile devices.

Abstracts may be submitted online beginning in February. The deadline for submission is Friday, March 2, 2012.

Topic areas include:

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January 6, 2012

Going to the Adriatic in May? Submit Your Abstracts for the GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference

Baska, Krk Island beach

This annual seminar on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and
covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the global navigation satellite
systems and efforts to improve accuracy and reliability.

The sixth GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference will take place at Baska on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from May 21 to May 24, 2012.

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OHB and SSTL Win Second Round of Contracts for 8 Galileo FOC Satellites

ICCE 2012 Special Session: Satellite Navigation Technologies

After Longitude – Modern Navigation in Context

Galileo Application Congress Prague 2012

FIG /IAG Technical Seminar: Reference Frame in Practice

ESTEL Conference 2012: Europe Space and Satellite Telecommunications

Hexagon 2012

Advanced Receiver Processing of GNSS Signals: NavtechGPS

Contact!

2012 Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN)

2012 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service (UPINLBS)

ICL-GNSS 2012: Localization and GNSS Conference

Going to the Adriatic in May? Submit Your Abstracts for the GNSS Vulnerabilities and Solutions Conference