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CGSIC: 2012 Civil GPS Interface Committee Meeting

CGSIC: 2012 Civil GPS Interface Committee Meeting

The Civil GPS Interface Committee (CGSIC) will meet during the ION GNSS 2012 conference at the Nashville Convention Center in Tennessee, USA on Monday, September 17 and Tuesday, September 18. This will be the 52nd meeting of the group.

The plenary session on Tuesday morning features updates by the U.S. National Space-Based PNT director, the Air Force GPS Directorate commander,  the Air Force Second Space Operations Squadron commander and State Department and Homeland Security senior officials.

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SpaceX ISS Mission Relies on GPS Technology
May 23, 2012

SpaceX ISS Mission Relies on GPS Technology

SpaceX Falcon 9/Dragon launch on May 22, 2012. NASA/Alan Ault

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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Inertial Sensors and Systems 2012

Inertial Sensors and Systems 2012

An afternoon at the 2011 symposium

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

COSPAR 2012: Committee on Space Research Scientific Assembly

Ceremonial room in the Mysore Palace, now a public museum.

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

Calle peatonal Lota Bajo (Photo: Jorge González)

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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IEEE ICRA 2013: International Conference on Robotics and Automation
May 22, 2012

IEEE ICRA 2013: International Conference on Robotics and Automation

The Pyramid, a Karlsruhe landmark

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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By Inside GNSS
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Conference on New Trends and Applications of GNSS

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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9th Annual Time and Frequency Metrology Seminar

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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Korea GNSS Society Conference
May 21, 2012

Korea GNSS Society Conference

One of the natural wonders of Jeju island.

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