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Airbus GNSS Engineers Win Top ESNC 2014 Prize

Airbus GNSS Engineers Win Top ESNC 2014 Prize

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) has gone Big Time.

Unlike past years, when product designers and engineers from small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME) have walked away with the top prize, this year’s overall winner was Airbus Defence & Space (Airbus DS GmbH), a division of the Airbus Group (formerly EADS). Headquartered in France and generating annual revenues of €14 billion, Airbus DS was established last year by the merger of the parent company’s Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian units.

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KCS Launches OEM TraceME Tracking Module
October 29, 2014

KCS Launches OEM TraceME Tracking Module

KCS TM-202LAR GPS/RF/GSM module

KCS bv, based in Dordrecht, The Netherlands, has introduced the newest OEM addition to its family of TraceME products, the TM-202LAR, a GPS/RF/GSM module intended for incorporation into products and systems used for tracking people, vehicles, and objects.

Measuring 46x21x6.5 millimeters and weighing seven grams, the low-power TM-202LAR incorporates a 48-channel CSR SiRFstar-IV GSD4e GPS L1 receiver, GPRS/GSM modem (QUAD band version) for RF connectivity up to two kilometers (1.2 miles), and a 3D magnetic compass and 3D accelerometer the operates at up to 16g.
 

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8th GPS IIF Satellite Begins Transmitting Nav Signals

8th GPS IIF Satellite Begins Transmitting Nav Signals

[Updated December 15, 2014] The eighth GPS Block IIF navigation satellite launched on October 29 has completed its operational checkout and was set to healthy and usable on Friday (December 12, 2014). This brings the number of satellites transmitting the L2C signal to 15 and those transmitting the L5 signal to 8.  The next GPS-IIF satellite, IIF-9/SVN-70 is tentatively scheduled for launch in March of 2015.

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JNC - Joint Navigation Conference 2015
October 22, 2014

JNC – Joint Navigation Conference 2015

The 2015 JNC – Joint Navigation Conference will take place June 22-25, 2015 at the Renaissance Orlando at SeaWorld in Orlando, Florida. The U.S. ONLY CLASSIFIED sessions will be held June 25 at Shades of Green Walt Disney World.

The abstract submission deadline has passed.

Early bird registration ends May 20, 2015.

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IGNSS 2015: International GNSS Society Symposium

IGNSS 2015: International GNSS Society Symposium

The IGNSS 2015 symposium on GPS/GNSS and industry exhibition will take place at the Outrigger Hotel in Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia from July 16 to 18, 2015. The conference venue is one block from the famous Surfer’s Paradise Beach.

The deadline for abstracts is February 9, 2015.

Registration will be open at the end of March, 2015. Early bird registration ends May 18, 2015.

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Army Funds GPS M-Code Upgrades as NATO Tackles Interoperability Problems

Army Funds GPS M-Code Upgrades as NATO Tackles Interoperability Problems

Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of defense for acquisition, logistics and technology

Pushed by Congress to upgrade to M-code, the U.S. Army is earmarking money for the new capability even as sequestration is forcing programs cuts, according to the service’s top acquisition official.

“We are heading towards the M-code capability,” said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology. The Army has worked “our S&T (science and technology) pieces,” she said, noting that the Air Force was developing the necessary circuit cards through is Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) program.

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GNSS+: PNT Heads for the Great Indoors
October 16, 2014

GNSS+: PNT Heads for the Great Indoors

A confluence of technology, policy, and applications is turning indoor venues into the next big frontier for positioning and navigation.

Recent market studies have heralded the prospects for positioning, navigation, and tracking inside buildings where GNSS signals are often attenuated or blocked entirely. Many products and conceptual designs combine the indoor technologies with GNSS to provide “ubiquitous” positioning.

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ICAO, RTCA Seek New Protections for GNSS Aviation Receivers

ICAO, RTCA Seek New Protections for GNSS Aviation Receivers

GPS pseudolite used in experiment at University of New South Wales Satellite Navigation and Positioning Lab

International aviation officials have asked U.S. experts to consider updating standards for GNSS aviation receivers to improve their ability to withstand interference from repeaters, pseudolites, and jammers.  

Repeaters — generally used to extend navigation signals inside buildings where they would otherwise be blocked — rebroadcast GNSS satellite signals and therefore operate in the same frequency band. Although useful within a building,  care must be taken to confined the repeater’s signal lest it confuse other receivers operating nearby.

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Raytheon UK Announces Upgraded GPS Anti-Jam Technology

Raytheon UK Announces Upgraded GPS Anti-Jam Technology

Raytheon UK launched a new enhanced version of its battlefield GPS L1/L2 anti-jam (GPS-AJ) capability, Landshield, this week (October 13–15) at the annual conference of the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA 2014) in Washington, D.C.

A multi-element antenna with the anti-jam processing in a single small “one-box” form factor that interfaces at the RF level, Landshield is designed to enable GPS equipment to function unimpaired against a full range of hostile jammer types including narrow band, broadband, continuous wave, pulse, swept, and spectrally matched.

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UAVs at INTERGEO: Applanix, Others Announce GNSS-Guided Systems
October 8, 2014

UAVs at INTERGEO: Applanix, Others Announce GNSS-Guided Systems

Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are getting a lot of attention this week at the INTERGEO conference and exhibition in Berlin, Germany, where a special session on Tuesday (October 7, 2014), “UAVs in Practice,” focused on their use in airborne surveying and mapping, environmental monitoring, and other commercial or civil applications.

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OxTS Offers Lightweight INS OEM Board

OxTS Offers Lightweight INS OEM Board

xOEM500

Oxford Technical Solutions Ltd. (OxTS) has announced its first inertial navigation OEM board set with integrated GNSS — the xOEM500, which the company is promoting at this week’s (October 7–9, 2014) Intergeo trade show in Berlin, Germany.

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VectorNav Introduces Dual-Antenna GPS/Inertial MEMS Unit
October 1, 2014

VectorNav Introduces Dual-Antenna GPS/Inertial MEMS Unit

VectorNav VN-300 GPS/MEMS IMU

VectorNav Technologies, now based in Dallas, Texas, offers the VN-30, a miniature dual GPS-aided inertial navigation system that combines MEMS inertial sensors, two high-sensitivity GPS receivers, and an onboard extended Kalman filter algorithms to provide estimates of position, velocity, and orientation for industrial applications.

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