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New Home (or Not) for Galileo in European Commission
October 23, 2014

New Home (or Not) for Galileo in European Commission

Daniel Calleja Crespo, Director-General of DG Enterprise. EC photo

The European Parliament voted yesterday (October 22, 2014) to accept President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker’s “last-chance” leadership for the European Commission (EC).

But the 11th-hour reshuffling of posts appears to leave Galileo without a clear-cut leader, at least at the political level — even as the Commission and its European Space Agency (ESA) partner have decided to give up the prospect of a December launch of two satellites.

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By Inside GNSS
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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By Inside GNSS
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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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By Inside GNSS
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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By Inside GNSS
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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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By Inside GNSS
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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By Inside GNSS
European Commission GSA Sign Agreement on Galileo Service Provision
October 9, 2014

European Commission GSA Sign Agreement on Galileo Service Provision

GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Commission (EC) have concluded an agreement that delegates a range of exploitation tasks for Galileo to the GSA, providing a framework and budget for the development of services and operations through 2021.

The signing of the Galileo Exploitation Delegation Agreement serves as an initial step towards the full Galileo Exploitation Phase.

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By Inside GNSS
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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By Inside GNSS
Arianespace Inquiry Identifies Source of Galileo Launch Anomaly; Next Attempt Could Come in December

Arianespace Inquiry Identifies Source of Galileo Launch Anomaly; Next Attempt Could Come in December

In a report issued Tuesday (October 7, 2014), an Independent Inquiry Board formed to analyze the cause of the August 22 launch anomaly that placed two Galileo into the wrong orbits has concluded that frozen fuel lines caused a misfiring of attitude control thrusters on the launcher’s Fregat module.

According to the report, the problem can be remedied on the rockets in time for another launch in December, much sooner than some observers had speculated.

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