Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Hexagon AB’s HxGN Live 2015 conference will take place at MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada from June 1 – 4, 2015.
Registration is now open. Priority Rate ends January 12, and the Early Bird rate end February 23, 2015.
By Inside GNSS
The Institute of Navigation’s 2015 International Technical Meeting will take place January 26-28 at the Laguna Cliffs Marriott Hotel in Dana Point California.
Online registration is available. Discounted Registration and hotel reservations end January 5.
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The remotely piloted Ikhana flies a checkout mission for an Air Collision Avoidance System project. NASA/Carla ThomasAs NASA’s new exploration spacecraft Orion made its way back to Earth from its first test mission, the Ikhana unmanned aircraft system captured its return—making it possible for NASA to stream the parachute deployment and splashdown footage on live television.
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Seabed’s SBD-IMU-S1 incorporates the Sensonor STIM300 IMUInstead of using the traditional fiber-optic gyros on which all its previous underwater systems have been based on, Seabed bv, based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, has selected Sensonor’s STIM300 for its newest IMU, the SBD-IMU-S1.
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Launched in October, the Dronecode Project brings together existing open
source drone projects and assets under a nonprofit structure governed
by The Linux Foundation, resulting in a common, shared open source
software platform for UAVs.
When Chris
Anderson started the DIY Drones community in 2007, he was a magazine
editor and a dad who knew little about drones, but wanted to learn.
Deep in the 1,600+ pages of the omnibus spending bill is a boost for those integrating unmanned aircraft into the nation’s airspace and a pilot project aimed at helping commercialize defense-developed intellectual property, including unmanned innovations.
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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has received 176 applications for rule waivers from companies seeking to fly unmanned aircraft commercially, a procedure put in place to give firms flight opportunities while the long-delayed rule for small unmanned aerial systems (UAS) is finalized.
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The day is coming when automated vehicles will be a common sight on our roadways, and the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT) intends to be prepared for their integration into daily traffic operations when that day arrives.
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On Wednesday (December 17, 2014) Raytheon Company announced successful completion of the fourth of five planned launch and early orbit exercises being undertaken together with Lockheed Martin to demonstrate new automation capabilities, information assurance, and launch readiness of the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS III satellite and Operational Control System (OCX).
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Galileo satellite geometry and received signal strength for the December 9 fix using the first Galileo FOC satellite, as received by the Septentrio Test User Receiver at ESTEC. The first Galileo FOC satellite corresponds to E19 on the left display; IOV PFM to E11, IOV FM2 to E12 and IOV FM3 to E19. ESA figureGalileo’s fifth satellite (and first fully operational capability, or FOC, spacecraft) — recently salvaged from an incorrect orbit — has been combined with three predecessors to provide its very first position fix.
Test receivers at the European Space Agency (ESA) ESTEC technical center in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, and at the Galileo In-Orbit Test station at Redu, Belgium, received the signals at 12:48 GMT on December 9 from a quartet of Galileo satellites and fixed their horizontal positions to better than two meters.
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With final passage of the Omnibus spending bill on December 13 Congress deepened by $17 million the fiscal ditch in which the new GPS ground system finds itself, possibly further delaying the completion of a modernized operational control segment (OCX) and increasing costs just as the Department of Defense’s top acquisition official steps in to take a closer look at budget overruns.
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Ronald Repasi, deputy chief of the FCC’s Office of Engineering and Technology, speaking at a 2012 hearing of House Energy & Commerce Subcommittee on Communications and TechnologyA rule largely aimed at opening trade in telecommunication services will require Russia and other international providers of GNSS services to apply for authorization before their navigation signals can be legally used in the United States, a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) official has told GPS experts on the Space-based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Advisory Board.
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The GPS Reflections Group at the University of Colorado, Boulder, led by Dr. Kristine M. Larson, has received the Creativity Prize from the Council for the Prince Sultan Bin Abdulaziz International Prize for Water.
The council awarded the prize today (December 15, 2014) at a ceremony preceding the 6th International Conference on Water Resources and Arid Environments (ICWRAE 6) taking place this week in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
By Inside GNSS
