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Hey, Kids! Get Your Names on Europe’s Galileo Satellites!
April 9, 2011

Hey, Kids! Get Your Names on Europe’s Galileo Satellites!

If you are lucky enough to be nine to eleven years old and living in Belgium or Bulgaria, you could get your name on one of the first European navigation satellites.

Two of them will launch from French Guiana in September 2011. Although Europe already has test satellites in the sky, these launches will mark the beginning of Galileo, a global navigation satellite system much like GPS.

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ICL-GNSS 2011: Localization and GNSS Conference
April 7, 2011

ICL-GNSS 2011: Localization and GNSS Conference

The 2011 International Conference on Localisation and GNSS will take place on June 29 and 30 in the city of Tampere, Finland at Tampere Hall, the largest conference and concert center in Scandanavia. 

ICL-GNSS 2011 will address the latest research on satellite-based positioning techniques to provide reliable and accurate position information with low latency. The emphasis is on the design of mass-market and professional GNSS receivers and related tools and methodologies.

Topics include:

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Hexagon 2011 International Conference

Hexagon 2011 International Conference

A number of user conferences for customers of Hexagon AB’s precise measurement brands and products will be combined in the Swedish corporation’s first international conference this summer.

It will take place at Orlando World Center Marriott Resort in Orlando, Florida from June 6 through June 9, 2011.

The theme is "Building a Smarter World," and will include 200 technical and training sessions and an industry exhibition.

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GPS ‘Stewards’ DoD, DoT DepSecs Protest LightSquared Plan to FCC

John Porcari, Dep. Secretary of Transportation. DoT photo

In a letter to Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski, the second-ranking officials from the U.S. departments of defense (DoD) and transportation (DoT) have issued the strongest administration message yet regarding LightSquared’s proposal to build a network of high-powered terrestrial transmitters broadcasting near the GPS L1 and other GNSS frequencies.

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Army Fields GPS-Guided Mortar in Afghanistan
March 30, 2011

Army Fields GPS-Guided Mortar in Afghanistan

GPS-guided APMI mortar in the field. U.S. Army photo

U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan are the first Army combat units to have access to GPS-guided 120-millimeter mortar cartridge capability — a rapidly fielded capability that has put precision guidance into a still-smaller military form factor.

The Program Executive Office (PEO) for Ammunition at Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey, fielded the Accelerated Precision Mortar Initiative (APMI) cartridges to an infantry brigade combat team (IBCT) earlier this month, and is scheduled to field cartridges to the seven other IBCTs in Afghanistan within six months.

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Parkinson to Receive U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award for GPS Role
March 23, 2011

Parkinson to Receive U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award for GPS Role

Brad Parkinson, who has received many honors for establishing and serving as the first program director of the GPS Joint Program Office (now GPS Directorate), is one of four U.S. Naval Academy graduates who will be honored in a Friday (March 25, 2011) ceremony for lifelong achievement and will receive the U.S. Naval Academy Alumni Association Distinguished Graduate Award.

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Obama: The Trifecta of Bad Timing on Technology Policies
March 21, 2011

Obama: The Trifecta of Bad Timing on Technology Policies

Talk about your bad timing.

The outcome of the LightSquared/GPS controversy threatens to make President Obama a three-time loser in technology policy matters.

In March 2010, his administration proposed to open for drilling for oil and natural gas extensive expanses along the Atlantic coast, in the eastern Gulf of Mexico, and off the north coast of Alaska, many of those areas for the first time. Less than a month later the Deepwater Horizon oil well explosion unleashed the largest accidental marine oil spill in the history of the petroleum industry.

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March 18, 2011

Surrey Satellite’s Galileo Payload Passes Preliminary Design Review

Navigation payloads being developed by Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) for the full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellites have passed the preliminary design review (PDR) by panel including the European Space Agency (ESA), demonstrating that they have a sufficient level of design maturity.

 SSTL is teamed with OHB System of Bremen, Germany for the provision of the first 14 FOC satellites. OHB is the prime contractor and builder of the spacecraft platform.

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NovAtel Announces FlexPak6 Enclosure Featuring OEM6 GNSS Technology

NovAtel Announces FlexPak6 Enclosure Featuring OEM6 GNSS Technology

NovAtel FlexPak6

NovAtel Inc. has announced the launch of  its FlexPak6 GNSS enclosure, the first product to house the company’s new OEM628 multi-constellation receiver.

According to the Calgary, Alberta, Canada–based company, the 120-channel FlexPak6 is designed for easy integration into new user equipment and is capable of tracking all current and upcoming GNSS satellite signals, including GPS L1/L2/L2C/L5 (code and carrier phase), GLONASS L1/L2, Galileo E1/E5a/E5b/Alt-BOC, Compass/BeiDou-2 and satellite-based augmentation systems.

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Galileo Security, Move to Prague Top List for Des Dorides of Europe’s GNSS Agency

House-hunting is turning out to be one of the first tasks facing Carlo des Dorides, new executive director of the European GNSS Agency, also known by the acronym — GSA — of its former name, the GNSS Supervisory Authority. And as with many new homeowners, security will be well up on the list of attributes.

Des Dorides is engaged in an expedited process to find a new home for the GSA in Prague, Czech Republic,

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