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746th Test Squadron Spins Up Jamfest ‘09
July 9, 2009

746th Test Squadron Spins Up Jamfest ‘09

Stallion Range Center, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, site of JAMFEST exercises

The 746th Test Squadron (746 TS) will offer authorized GPS users another in its series of JAMFEST training scenarios November 2–6 at at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.

Introduced in May 2004, JAMFEST provides a realistic GPS jamming environment for testing GPS-based navigation systems. Since its inception, JAMFEST has hosted a diverse customer base, including multi-service Department of Defense (DoD) groups, defense contractors, and civil organizations with objectives ranging from training personnel in GPS-denied or –degraded conditions to characterizing the performance of prototype advanced anti-jam technologies against operationally realistic threats.

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Pendulum’s Adds Options for GPS-12 Portable Frequency Standard Family
July 8, 2009

Pendulum’s Adds Options for GPS-12 Portable Frequency Standard Family

Pendulum Instruments, Stockholm, Sweden, has introduced four new options for the company’s GPS-12 Portable Frequency Standard family.

First released in 2006, the GPS-12R, a portable GPS controlled rubidium Frequency Standard with battery backup power, supplies a variety of standard frequencies for general metrology (1, 5, and 10 MHz), base station test (13 MHz) and telecom (E1/T1 clock/data).

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New RTCM Standard Supports Internet Streaming of GNSS Corrections to Mobile Users

New RTCM Standard Supports Internet Streaming of GNSS Corrections to Mobile Users

The Radio Technical Commission for Maritime Services (RTCM) has completed a revision (Version 2.0) of its standard for Networked Transport of RTCM via Internet Protocol (Ntrip).

Designated as RTCM Standard 10410.1, Among other things, the new standard defined by RTCM’s Special Committee 104 (SC104) provides a protocol for streaming differential correction data or other kinds of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) data to stationary or mobile users over the Internet.

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MMT Launches 20-Channel Module

MMT Launches 20-Channel Module

Micro Modular Technologies (MMT), of Irvine, California, has introduced its MN5515HS GPS receiver module, a low-power, 20-channel GPS receiver module based on the SiRFstarIII GPS receiver chipset.

The MN5515HS has a reported cold-start acquisition sensitivity of –145dBm and tracking sensitivity of –159dBm.

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GPS 746th Test Squadron Turns 50

GPS 746th Test Squadron Turns 50

746th Test Squadron commander Lt. Col. Amy McCain dedicates an exhibit with Director Randall Hayes of the New Mexico Museum of Space History in Alamogordo.

A tradition of testing of navigation systems and missile components began for the 746th Test Squadron (746 TS) in 1959 and continued as it reached its golden anniversary in May 2009.

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Raytheon GPS Receiver Team Tracks M-Code Satellite Signal

Raytheon GPS Receiver Team Tracks M-Code Satellite Signal

The GPS Wing has announced that the Raytheon Modernized User Equipment (MUE) team has achieved live satellite M-code tracking with an MUE receiver.

The team has developed modernized versions of the Avionics GPS Receiver Application Module and Ground Based GPS Receiver Applications Module (GB-GRAM) receivers under MUE receiver development contracts awarded to three companies in June of 2006. M-code signals from Block IIR GPS satellites were acquired using a Raytheon GB-GRAM-M.

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GPS Wing Seeks Manufacturer, User Feedback on SVN49 Signal Anomaly, Solution

GPS Wing Seeks Manufacturer, User Feedback on SVN49 Signal Anomaly, Solution

GPS satellite L-band antenna elements

The GPS Wing is reaching out to receiver manufacturers and the user community to gather comments on the SVN49 signal anomaly and the Air Force’s provisional solution to the problem.

Despite earlier news reports suggesting that the problem, which has kept the latest GPS satellite from being declared operational, was on its way to being solved, a GPS Wing spokesperson characterized the remedy of altering the satellite’s broadcast orbital position (ephemeris) and time as only a “partial fix.” Indeed, high-precision dual-frequency users, such as those in the International GNSS Service, may continue to encounter difficulties in handling the SVN49 signal.

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FAA Awards New WAAS Receiver Contract to NovAtel
June 25, 2009

FAA Awards New WAAS Receiver Contract to NovAtel

FAA graphic

GNSS manufacturer NovAtel Inc., of Calgary, Alberta, Canada, has received a new contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to develop the next-generation GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) reference receiver (the “GIII” receiver). The three-year contract is worth up to US$9.7million.

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Saving GPS SVN49: Tweaking Satellite Ephemerides and Time

Saving GPS SVN49: Tweaking Satellite Ephemerides and Time

When GPS reference receivers at the European Space Operations Center (ESOC) detected a 150-meter error in the broadcast ephemerides (orbital position) for the latest GPS satellite — Space Vehicle Number 49 or SVN49 — scientists there assumed that a problem had arisen with the spacecraft’s navigation payload.

After all, coupled with an apparent 500-nanosecond clock error, the ephemerides could produce many kilometers of errors for navigation receivers.

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Air Force May Be Able to Fix Problem with Latest GPS Satellite
June 16, 2009

Air Force May Be Able to Fix Problem with Latest GPS Satellite

Members of the 45th Launch Support Squadron, along with the 45th Range Management Squadron’s GPS team, pause in front of the GPS IIR-20 satellite atop its Detla II booster prior to its launch March 24. (Lockheed Martin photo/Bruce Johnson)

U.S. Air Force officials have confirmed that signal anomalies on the latest GPS satellite — IIR-20(M), also identified as SVN49/PRN01 — are related to the interface to the new L5 payload also on board.

But the problem appears fixable.

The spacecraft has remained is still in early orbit checkout since its launch on March 24 and has not been introduced into the operational constellation.  

A dedicated response team of Air Force and contractor experts are wrapping up their investigation of the cause of the L1 signal anomalies, which were detected on April 9. The signal distortion was initially observed as an elevation-dependent bias in ranging measurements from GPS monitor stations.

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eLoran: The Never-Ending Story?
June 15, 2009

eLoran: The Never-Ending Story?

Loran tower – Starkey Loran research photos 2001

To say that enhanced Loran (eLoran) has been an on-again off-again program would give short shrift to multiple generations of official ambivalence about the proposed backup for GPS.

The latest chapter began on June 4 when Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Washington) introduced S. 1194, the Coast Guard Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 (FY2010/11).

Among other details, the measure directs the Secretary of Transportation to continue the Loran system until a plan has been drawn up and implemented to transition the program to eLoran.

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Applanix Introduces New Aerial Digital Photogrammetric System
June 4, 2009

Applanix Introduces New Aerial Digital Photogrammetric System

Applanix
has introduced the POSTrack 410 flight management and direct
georeferencing system designed for use with the latest generation of
medium-format airborne digital photogrammetric camera.

The POSTrack 410 incorporates Applanix’s POS AV GNSS-inertial navigation
system (INS) and POSPac Mobile Mapping Suite (MMS) office software,
featuring the IN-Fusion technology and SmartBase module. This system
can process both GPS and GLONASS signals as well as those from
satellite-based augmentation systems.

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