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May 23, 2012

SpaceX ISS Mission Relies on GPS Technology

The unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft currently attempting to visit to the International Space Station (ISS) is using on board GPS receivers to perform a series of maneuvers as part of NASA’s first collaboration with the commercial space operator.

On Tuesday (May 22, 2012) in its first day of flight after launching from Cape Canaveral on board SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, Dragon successfully completed a test of its absolute GPS system, using GPS to determine its location and communicating this data via NASA tracking satellites.

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GPS-Aided Monitoring of Parolees: No Privacy Issues, Just a Large Addressable Market

(Updated May 22) Amid a growing controversy over GNSS-aided tracking of private citizens, a recent study sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) may point toward a politically acceptable, large — and largely untapped — market: monitoring criminals released early from prison.

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Inertial Sensors and Systems 2012

The Inertial Sensors and Systems symposium will take place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 18 and 19, 2012. The conference will be held in English.

At this conference, formerly the Symposium Gyro Technology, the latest state of inertial sensors and navigation systems as well as gyro technology will be presented.

This includes applications of this technology, the development of new systems, components and test procedures as well as investigations on cost and marketing aspects.

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COSPAR 2012: Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly

The 39th scientific assembly of COSPAR, the Committee On Space Research, willl take place from July 14 to July 22, 2012 at the Global Education Centre-2, Infosys Training Centre, Mysore, Karnataka, India. Mysore is known as the "City of Palaces."

The topics are fundmentals and relevance of space science and technological innovations and applications. Of particular interest to readers of Inside GNSS are sessions on atomic clocks, space weather, space debris, satellite dynamic and the ionosphere.

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SIRGAS 2012

SIRGAS 2012, the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system for the Americas, will be held at the Universidad de Concepción auditorium in Concepción, Chile October 29 through 31, 2012.

The event will also be hosted by the Instituto Geográfico Militar of Chile.

In addition to the meeting sessions, a technical visit to the Transportable Integrated Geodetic Observatory (TIGO) of the German Federal Agency for Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) is scheduled.

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May 22, 2012

IEEE ICRA 2013: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

IEEE’s giant robotics conference comes to Karlsruhe, Germany in 2013, with the theme "Anthropomatics-Technologies for Humans."

The event will take place at the Karlsruhe convention center (Knogresszentrum Karlsruhe) on May 6-10, 2013.

The conference covers every possible aspect of robotics development from body form and movement, programming and learning, hardware and software to lots of positioning, navigation and timing aspects.

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Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS

Billed as the "First International Conference" on new trends and applications of GNSS, this new event is sponsored and organized by the Space Science Center at Cairo University.

It will take place at Cairo University in Giza city from September 1 to 4 2012. The conference language is English.

Paper abstracts are due by July 15, midnight Cairo Standard Time. Submit them online at the website below.

With more services and signals, the GNSS landscape is changing and new trends and applications must be considered.

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International GNSS Service Workshop 2012

The 2012 IGS workshop will take place at the University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland from July 23 to 27.

The topic areas are:

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9th Annual Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar

The National Institute of Standards and technology (NIST) offers this comprehensive course on clocks, oscillators, atomic frequency standards, quantum information and more for those who work with time and frequency systems at all levels of experience.

The seminar will take place June 5 through 8 at the NIST laboratories in Boulder, Colorado, source of the United States’ official time.

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May 21, 2012

Korea GNSS Society Conference

The 2012 Korea GNSS Society (KGS) Conference, previously known as the GNSS Workshop, will be held on November 8 and 9 at Phoenix Island resort on Jeju, Korea.

The general chair is Philho Peter Park, Korea Astronomy and Space Science Institute.

The event has been held since 1994, when Korea’s GPS Technology Council (now GNSS) was established.

While the English language website has some information on deadlines and conference history, information on papers and registration is available in Korean only.

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MBOC Patent Dispute Could Affect U.S. Military, European Civil GNSS Users

(Updated May 21) U.S. warfighters could be affected and European navigation users could end up paying more if the British are able to enforce a patent on technology at the heart of the new GPS and Galileo civil signals.

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May 19, 2012

First GPS III Launch Delayed by Up to a Year, OCX by Two Years

The launch of the first GPS III satellite has slipped to 2015 and completion of the ground control system is now delayed by up to two years, according to the chief of the Air Force’s space operations

“We’ll be ready to launch the first GPS III in 2015, but it now appears the next generation GPS Operational Control System, or OCX, won’t be ready for about a year or two after that,” General William L. Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command told attendees at the 28th Annual National Space Symposium.

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May 16, 2012

LightSquared Vows to Fight for Wireless Broadband Plan Despite Bankruptcy

Thwarted thus far in efforts to convert satellite spectrum into a terrestrial service, LightSquared Inc. and 19 affiliates have filed for bankruptcy. But the would-be wireless broadband provider said it had not abandoned efforts to build out a nationwide network of transmitters that extensive tests have shown would interfere with GPS receivers.

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SpaceX ISS Mission Relies on GPS Technology

GPS-Aided Monitoring of Parolees: No Privacy Issues, Just a Large Addressable Market

Inertial Sensors and Systems 2012

COSPAR 2012: Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly

SIRGAS 2012

IEEE ICRA 2013: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS

International GNSS Service Workshop 2012

9th Annual Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar

Korea GNSS Society Conference

MBOC Patent Dispute Could Affect U.S. Military, European Civil GNSS Users

First GPS III Launch Delayed by Up to a Year, OCX by Two Years

LightSquared Vows to Fight for Wireless Broadband Plan Despite Bankruptcy