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January 6, 2014

Enhanced Differential Loran Maritime Trials in The Netherlands Declared Successful

The eDLoran receiver including antenna is mounted in a standard enclosure (14x14x10cm) for GPS-RTK equipment provided by AD Navigation (Norway)

The Dutch Pilots Corporation and Reelektronika announced today (January 7, 2014) the successful development and test of an Enhanced Differential Loran (eDLoran) backup to GNSS in The Netherlands.

Trials at sea and in the Rotterdam Europort harbor area met the requirement for absolute accuracies in the five-meter range, according to Durk van Willigen, CEO of Reelektronika, and Wim van Buuren, Loodswezen’s information & communications technology (ICT) and innovation manager and board member.

By Inside GNSS

January 1, 2014

GAO Faults DHS, DoT for GPS Interference/Backup Effort

Federal efforts to protect positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) signals came under sharp criticism during the December meeting of the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board, with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) getting a bureaucratic ear boxing for having done little so far to specifically protect GPS.

By Inside GNSS

December 18, 2013

Difficult Task: Placing an Economic Value on GPS

The nation’s leading GPS experts are struggling to quantify how the world’s premier navigation and timing system affects the U.S. economy, an effort critical to building a political firewall around GPS spectrum in the face of ballooning demand for broadband capacity.

By Inside GNSS

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December 17, 2013

40th Anniversary of Key DoD Decision on GPS

Brad Parkinson, the first director of the NAVSTAR GPS Joint Program Office, once said that his work with the Global Positioning System had led him to validate an interpretation of “prime law” suggested by a colleague: one thing leads to another

Forty years ago today, that principle culminated in a key decision by the Department of Defense to proceed with what became the GPS program.

By Inside GNSS

GPS-Aided Crowdshipping: TwedEx and Deliv

Crowdsourcing has gained some attention in the GNSS community as a means for detecting and mitigating RF interference and signal spoofing.

In the past year, researchers and commercial ventures have developed ways to take advantage of the GNSS-derived knowledge of real-time location of participants to create ad hoc networks of couriers.

By Inside GNSS

December 16, 2013

Russians Consider IGS as Congress Moves to Limit GLONASS, Foreign GNSS Monitoring Stations on U.S. Soil

Lawmakers are poised to sharply limit the ability of foreign nations to own or control satellite system monitoring stations on U.S. territory, a rare show of congressional cooperation triggered by a Russian request to place stations supporting its satellite navigation system on American soil.

By Inside GNSS

December 12, 2013

International IEEE Workshop on Asia-Pacific Satellite Navigation and Positioning, Call for Abstracts

The International IEEE Workshop on Asia-Pacific Satellite Navigation and Positioning will be held at CSIRO Centre for Advanced Technologies,
Pullenvale, outside Brisbane, Australia on February 27 to March 1, 2014.

The deadlines for abstract submission and registration are both January 30, 2014.

By Inside GNSS

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Sixth Conference on European Union Space Policy

The 6th Conference on European Union Space Policy will take place at the European Commission’s Charlemagne Building, in Brussels, Belgium on January 28 and 29, 2014.

Registration is now open. Online registration closes January 22, 2014.

The theme is "What Direction for Europe in Space Between Now and 2020?." The conference is sponsored by the presidents of the European Commission, the European Council and the European Parliament.

By Inside GNSS

GSA Invites Proposals for European GNSS R&D Projects

Horizon 2020 (H2020), the new incarnation of European Commission–funded research and innovation programs, has issued its first call for applications in satellite navigation.

The relatively modest — €38 million (US$52 million) out of a total of €70 billion (US$92 billion) for the period 2014–2020 — represents an initial round of invitations for R&D proposals that previously were distributed under the framework programs (FPs). The deadline for submitting proposals is April 3, 2014.

By Inside GNSS

November 30, 2013

GNSS Hotspots | November 2013

One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859

1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)

Nouméa ground station after the flood

A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat

Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV

Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)

“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto

The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder.

Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram

Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST

1. PAPER, PLEASE.
Silver Spring, Maryland USA
√ The USA will stop printing nautical charts next April, the end of a 150 year tradition. Why? “Declining demand, electronic and digital charts and federal budget realities,” said NOAA’s Office of Coast Survey. They will maintain and update PDFs of more than a thousand coastal charts and refer those who admire traditional lithography to private printers who can do the job.

By Inside GNSS

GLONASS: Not a Red Menace

Editor’s Note: On November 19, Senator Roger Wicker (R-Mississippi), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, filed an amendment (No. 2185) to the FY 2014 National Defense Authorization Act (S. 1197),
Section 1082, that would limit the construction of satellite
positioning ground monitoring stations controlled by any foreign
government on U.S. soil. Such construction would require certification

Read More >

By Inside GNSS

November 27, 2013

Auto Regulators Seek to Shape Navigation Devices and Apps

Highway safety officials are crafting guidelines aimed at pushing manufacturers to make portable electronic devices — including cell phones, hand-held navigation receivers, and navigation apps — less likely to distract drivers. They may face some push back, however, from members of Congress who are already questioning whether GNSS devices should be included under the proposed standards.

By Inside GNSS

First Galileo FOC Satellite ‘Doresa’ Passes Thermal Vacuum Tests

The first full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellite has survived the most difficult of all the environmental tests “with flying colors,” according to the space vehicle’s manufacturer OHB-System, of Bremen, Germany.

By Inside GNSS

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Enhanced Differential Loran Maritime Trials in The Netherlands Declared Successful

GAO Faults DHS, DoT for GPS Interference/Backup Effort

Difficult Task: Placing an Economic Value on GPS

40th Anniversary of Key DoD Decision on GPS

GPS-Aided Crowdshipping: TwedEx and Deliv

Russians Consider IGS as Congress Moves to Limit GLONASS, Foreign GNSS Monitoring Stations on U.S. Soil

International IEEE Workshop on Asia-Pacific Satellite Navigation and Positioning, Call for Abstracts

Sixth Conference on European Union Space Policy

GSA Invites Proposals for European GNSS R&D Projects

GNSS Hotspots | November 2013

GLONASS: Not a Red Menace

Auto Regulators Seek to Shape Navigation Devices and Apps

First Galileo FOC Satellite ‘Doresa’ Passes Thermal Vacuum Tests