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November 5, 2010

LMCO Ships GPS III Simulator to Aerospace Corporation, Maintains Program Schedule Lead

Artist’s illustration of GPS III. Lockheed Martin image

The Aerospace Corporation has completed acceptance testing on the GPS III Bus Real Time Simulator (BRTS) from the Lockheed Martin–led team developing the next-generation satellite program, keeping the initiative ahead of schedule.

The BRTS is a specialized piece of test equipment designed to reduce risk and ensure overall mission success for the lifecycle of the GPS III program. The simulator will enable Aerospace Corporation to independently validate GPS III bus flight software for the U.S. Air Force.

By Inside GNSS

November 3, 2010

GPS Outages, Bad Receivers, System Architecture on Agenda for Space-Based PNT Advisory Board

The U.S. Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee (ExCom) has issued a new set of tasks that it wants its advisory board to take up over the next 14 months with topics including civil and commercial GPS receivers that don’t comply with technical specifications, a national PNT architecture plan, and the effects of PNT outages particularly on the nations cyber networks.

By Inside GNSS

November 2, 2010

Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS

Thailand’s largest island and a popular tourist destination

The 2nd Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on November 21–22, in the two days before the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Form (APRSAF) annual meeting in the city.

The free event will take place at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in Storey Hall at 342 Swanston Street. Registration is required on the event website.

By Inside GNSS

October 31, 2010

Galileo Operations Contract, EGNOS SoL Service Move Ahead

At European Space Policy Conference: From left, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Mercedes Bresso, President of the European Committee of the Regions, Vittori Prodi, Member of the European Parliament. ESA photo – S. Corvaja, 2010

Amid continuing debate over how to handle budgetary shortfalls in building a European GNSS, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a €194 million ($270.5 million) contract on October 25 with Spaceopal to provide space- and ground-based services to operate the Galileo constellation once it has been fully deployed.

By Inside GNSS

October 30, 2010

ABI Research: Mobile Phone GPS Navigation Grows Substantially But PNDs Still on Top

ABI Research says that a recent survey revealed that, although portable navigation devices (PNDs) remain the most used form factor, the number of mobile phones with navigation software in the car is growing substantially in the United States, up to 24 percent this year from 19 percent in 2009.

By Inside GNSS

October 12, 2010

OlinkStar Offers GNSS Products Using Current Compass/Beidou-2 Signals

OlinkStar CC100-BG Beidou-GPS module

Despite the absence of official published specifications for China’s Compass/Beidou-2, a number of GNSS companies have announced plans to build Compass-capable receivers — in some cases “future-proofing” their products so as to be upgradeable when a Beidou-2 Interface Control Document becomes available.

By Inside GNSS

October 11, 2010

Trimble Acquires Terralite Line from Novariant

Trimble has acquired the Terralite assets from Novariant, Inc., to expand the Sunnyvale, California–based company’s portfolio of positioning solutions.

By Inside GNSS

October 5, 2010

GAO on GPS (Again): Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist

A new report on the GPS program from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds the situation considerably improved from last year, when its prediction of a significant risk of the satellite constellation falling below 24 satellites set off alarms in Congress and among the user community.

By Inside GNSS

September 30, 2010

Raytheon Completes GPS OCX Integrated Baseline Review

The U.S. Air Force and the Raytheon Company team developing the GPS Advanced Control Segment (OCX) has successfully completed an integrated baseline review (IBR) for the next-generation system on schedule.

By Inside GNSS

Senate Committee Approves 2011 GPS Appropriations

Recent action by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) Defense spending bill (S. 3800) that essentially accepts the GPS elements of President Obama’s budget proposal, including $40.9 million for the high-integrity GPS (HIGPS) demonstration project.

By Inside GNSS

September 16, 2010

ION 2011 International Technical Meeting

Catamaran Hotel, San Diego

The Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 24-26 at the Catamaran Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego California.

Paul Kline of Honeywell Aerospace is the general chair. Jade Morton of Miami University, Ohio, is the program chair.

"Robotics Navigation" is the plenary session topic. Invited speakers will discuss current trends and future technologies that support navigation for surveillance, search and rescue, undergound and underwater robotics and unmanned air vehicles.

By Inside GNSS

Tanegashima space center control room.jpg

September 11, 2010

“Michibiki,” Japan’s First QZSS Navigation Satellite, Reaches Quasi-Zenith Orbit

QZSS satellite separaes from the launcher (photo by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)

(UPDATED September 27) Japan’s first quasi-zenith satellite launched successfully from the Tanegashima space center on September 11, 2010 and reached its quasi-zenith orbit on Monday, September 27.

Michibiki means to guide or lead the way, appropriate for the first entry into Japan’s satellite augmentation program that will vastly improve GNSS accuracy over Japan and the rest of East Asia.

By Inside GNSS

September 10, 2010

Oregon: More GPS Product Design and GNSS-related Industry Here Than You May Think

The Portland skyline with a GPSIIF satellite is featured in the Inside GNSS booth at ION GNSS 2010

by Glen Gibbons

Few would mistake Oregon for the beating heart of GNSS. Still, for a medium-sized U.S. metro area in the Pacific Northwest, Portland and Oregon’s I-5 corridor has enough relevant involvement with the industry to justify hosting the Institute of Navigation’s 2010 GNSS conference and exhibition.

Oregon has FLIR Systems, Cloud Cap Technology, TriQuint, Intel, Garmin and Inside GNSS magazine.

By Inside GNSS

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LMCO Ships GPS III Simulator to Aerospace Corporation, Maintains Program Schedule Lead

GPS Outages, Bad Receivers, System Architecture on Agenda for Space-Based PNT Advisory Board

Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS

Galileo Operations Contract, EGNOS SoL Service Move Ahead

ABI Research: Mobile Phone GPS Navigation Grows Substantially But PNDs Still on Top

OlinkStar Offers GNSS Products Using Current Compass/Beidou-2 Signals

Trimble Acquires Terralite Line from Novariant

GAO on GPS (Again): Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist

Raytheon Completes GPS OCX Integrated Baseline Review

Senate Committee Approves 2011 GPS Appropriations

ION 2011 International Technical Meeting

“Michibiki,” Japan’s First QZSS Navigation Satellite, Reaches Quasi-Zenith Orbit

Oregon: More GPS Product Design and GNSS-related Industry Here Than You May Think