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April 25, 2013

GNSS summer school for young engineers to be held in Tokyo this August

Doctoral-level graduate students and early-career engineers, researchers and instructors from Japan and the rest of the world are invited to a weeklong summer seminar this August in Tokyo, sponsored by the Institute of Positioning, Navigation and Timing of Japan.

The summer school will take place in from August 19 through August 24 at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT). Classes wil be held in English.

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North Korea’s GPS Jamming Prompts South Korea to Endorse Nationwide eLoran System

Projected accuracy and coverage of Korea’s eLoran network. Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries of Korea

GPS jamming attacks from North Korea that have increased in frequency and duration since they began August 2010 have prompted the South Korean government to implement an enhanced Loran (eLoran) systems that will cover the entire country by 2016.

The South Korean government completed design, development, and construction documents for the eLoran system in February and will procure the system infrastructure through international competitive bidding.

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April 16, 2013

U.S. Agencies Seek Comments on Future Uses of NDGPS

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), in partnership with the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG), is seeking public comments on the current and future user needs for the Nationwide Differential Global Positioning System (NDGPS).

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Military GPS Budget Appears Steady as President Bids to Slow Defense Cuts

Spending pressures on the Pentagon seem to be coming from every direction, and the GPS program appears unlikely to avoid them entirely.

The growing needs of veterans are poised to force up health care budgets and higher transportation costs and operating tempos have dug a $22 billion-hole in the accounts for Overseas Contingency Operations in places such as Afghanistan.

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Galileo Satellite Achieves High Earth Orbit Positioning with GPS

GPS signal side lobes.

When the European Space Agency launched its Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element-A (GIOVE-A) satellite in 2005, its main mission was to transmit Galileo test signals that secured the system’s frequencies, evaluate hardware under space environmental conditions, and so forth.

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Locata Installation Supports U.S. Vehicle Crash Avoidance Research

The U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety will use Locata positioning to control automated testing of frontal collision avoidance and other safety systems. IIHS image

In announcing the selection of its terrestrial positioning system as the core PNT technology for the U.S. Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (IIHS) Vehicle Research Center (VRC), Locata Corporation has opened up a new front in its campaign to augment or replace GNSS in application environments where the latter technology is unreliable or unavailable.

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April 12, 2013

A First-Hand Look at Smithsonian’s New Exhibit That Links Time and Navigation

Smithsonian staff prepare Ramsden sextant for mounting at Time and Navigation exhibit. Photo by Dee Ann Divis

Thanks to an accident of renovation, the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space museum is now the home to a substantial new exhibit that opened today (April 12, 2013), “Time and Navigation: The Untold Story of Getting from Here to There.”

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19th KA + 31st AIAA ICSSC Joint Conference

Florence 1493 stamp

This joint conference held with the Italian Space Agency (ASI) and the European Space Agency (ESA) will be held at the Hilton Florence Metropole Hotel in Florence, Italy from October 14 through October 17, 2013.

It combines the 19th Ka and Broadband Communications, Navigation and Earth Observation Conference and the 31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference (ICSSC). The 11st BroadSky Workshop organized by the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology of Japan will be held at the same time.

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GENIUS: Modern GNSS Positioning and Timing Seminar

This seminar for European doctoral students working in GNSS will take place at Allborg University on May 15, 16 and 17, 2013. Tuition is free, accepted students must pay for their own travel and lodging.

Lecture topics and presenters:

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KTN ICT: Technology for Radio Coexistence

This one-day event sponsored by the UK Knowledge Transfer Network Information and Communications Technologies group (KTN ICT) and Cambridge Wireless will cover technologies for radio coexistence as spectrum reallocation occurs.

It will take place on May 16 from noon to 4:40 p.m. at Eversheds LLP, 1 Wood Street, London, EC2V 7WS.

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April 10, 2013

GPS Design Changes Will Add Waveform Generator, Dual-Launch Capability, and More

A redesign of the GPS satellites under development by Lockheed Martin will add a signal waveform generator, search and rescue payload, laser retroreflector array (LRA), and dual-launch capability beginning with Space Vehicle 9 (SV09).

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April 2, 2013

Vietnamese University Announces First Galileo-Only Positioning

Figure 1. Galileo/GPS skyplot. HUST NAVIS Center figure

A research team at the NAVIS Center at Hanoi University of Science and Technology (HUST) in Vietnam has achieved what it says is the first successful Galileo-only positioning in Asia.

By Inside GNSS