Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The 2010 Joint Navigation Conference (Guidance, Navigation and Control) will take place at Wyndham Orlando Resort in Florida, USA from June 7 to June 10, 2010.
The conference theme is "Military Navigation Technology: The Foundation of Military Ops." It is cohosted by the Joint Service Data Exchange (JSDE) and the Institute of Navigation (ION) for the U.S. Departments of Defense and Homeland Security.
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"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: The Beginning of a New Age" is the theme of the 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.
In addition to multi-GNSS issues, the event will focus on signal design, signal processing, GNSS payload technology effects and integration of navigation technologies with communication services.
The European Space Agency event will be held from December 8 to 10, 2010 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.
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[Updated March 27] The first of two teleconferences hosted by the GPS Wing underlined the U.S. Air Force’s desire to gain greater participation by manufacturers of user equipment in sorting out the options for mitigating the effects of a signal anomaly on the GPS satellite known as SVN49.
The March 26 teleconference, held on the same day as publication of a notice in the Federal Register inviting public comment on nine possible options for dealing with the anomaly, drew only a handful of participants. But the U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), which issued the invitation, and the GPS Wing, which has the lead in implementing an eventual decision, hope to see further industry participation in written comments and a second teleconference planned for April 30.
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The 2010 CISME exhibition, including three GNSS-related symposia, will be held at the Shanghai EverBright Convention Center April 8 through 10.
"Digital China Based on Innovation" is the them of the China (Shanghai) International Mapping and Surveying Equipment exhibition.
The three symposia covering GPS, GIS and remote sensing technologies, are: 2010 National Survey Technology, 2010 Shanghai Remote Sensing Technology and 2010 Shanghai Geophysics.
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Col. Bernard GruberThe Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has established the schedule for the transition of command at the GPS Wing.
Incoming commander Col. Bernard Gruber will assume command on July 30. Outgoing commander Col. David Madden will retire from the Air Force in June and take up new responsibilities at SMC as a civilian, assuming command of the Military Satellite Communications Wing on July 19.
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A dramatic site in the Columbia River Gorge,a few miles outside of Portland, OregonAbstracts are due this Friday for the fall ION GNSS conference.
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Prof. David Last at DSKTN symposiumThe noise floor seems to be rising on the subject of GNSS vulnerability to jamming and interference. Recently, the United Kingdom provided the locus for a trio of initiatives that reflect growing anxieties about the widespread global dependence of critical position, navigation, and timing (PNT) applications and infrastructures on the low-power signals from space.
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Raytheon Corporation graphicOfficials from the Space and Missile Systems Center’s Global Positioning Systems Wing announced today (February 25) the award of the Next Generation GPS Control Segment (OCX) contract to Raytheon Company, Intelligence & Information Systems, Aurora, Colorado.
With a baseline duration of 73 months, the OCX development contract has option years for sustainment worth a potential total of $1,535,147,916. Raytheon teammates include Boeing, ITT, Braxton Technologies, Infinity Systems Engineering, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
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The theme of the 2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS is "At a Turning Point." It will take place at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan on October 26-28.
National Cheng Kung University is organizing and hosting the event. The symposium will be held in English.
The annual forum is open to innovative ideas on GNSS systems, techniques, applications and opportunities by researchers and engineers from academia and industry.
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TÜV SÜD, an independent third-party certifier, has awarded IFEN GmbH an official certificate affirming the conformance of IFEN’s NavX-NCS GNSS RF navigation constellation simulator with the Galileo Open Signal Signal-in-Space Interface Control Document (OS SIS ICD).
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President Obama’s proposed budget for fiscal year 2011 (FY11) would allocate $1.057 billion for Department of Defense (DoD) GPS-related procurement and development activities and nearly $180 million to the Department of Transportation (DoT) for civil GPS programs.
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First Block IIF Satellite (Boeing)[updated Februaary 16] The first Block IIF satellite is undergoing final launch preparations after arriving at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
Space Vehicle 1 (SV-1), the first of 12 GPS IIF satellites for the U.S. Air Force, will lift off on a United Launch Alliance Delta IV vehicle later this year, with the first launch window in mid-May.
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Diagram of solar flare effects (NOAA)An Atlas 5 rocket sent NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) up on February 11 on an $850 million, five-year mission to find out more about the sun’s magnetic field activity and space weather and, hopefully, to improve forecasting enough to make it possible to safeguard GPS and other technologies.
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