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2012 Delta IV Launch Investigation Results Delay Fifth GPS Block IIF
October 22, 2013

2012 Delta IV Launch Investigation Results Delay Fifth GPS Block IIF

Planned launch of the fifth GPS Block II-F satellite on a Delta IV rocket has been delayed twice and now has no firm date for a new attempt.

Officials with the United Launch Alliance (ULA) — a 50-50 joint venture owned by Lockheed Martin and Boeing — attributed the delay to recent results of the second phase of an investigation into an anomaly that affected the second stage of a Delta IV GPS launch in October 2012.

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Russia Names New Head to Space Agency in Wake of GLONASS Launch Failure
October 11, 2013

Russia Names New Head to Space Agency in Wake of GLONASS Launch Failure

Oleg Ostapenko, new Roscosmos chief

Former Deputy Defense Minister Oleg Ostapenko will head up Russia’s Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos), replacing Vladimir Popovkin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said yesterday (October 10, 2013).

Popovkin was dismissed from his post Thursday by a government decree, according to a report by Novosti RIA, the Russian information agency.

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TREGA - Training EGNOS GNSS in Africa

TREGA – Training EGNOS GNSS in Africa

Piazza Goldoni, Trieste, Italy

The second session of Training EGNOS GNSS in Africa (TREGA), "GNSS Systems and Applications" and "Service Provision, User Support and Promotion of EGNOS Use in Africa," will take place at the Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy beginning January 20, 2013.

Attendance is open to participants from African or European countries. The application deadline is November 1, 2013.

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ISPA 2013 - Precision Approach and Performance Based Navigation Symposium
October 8, 2013

ISPA 2013 – Precision Approach and Performance Based Navigation Symposium

The 2013 International Symposium on Precision Approach and Performance Based Navigation will be held at the Maritim proArte Hotel in Berlin, Germany on October 23 – 24, 2013.

The symposium will focus on aircraft approaches and performance based navigation, including approaches using standalone GPS, technological aspects such as GNSS, augmentation systems, radio navigation, and new and emerging navigation services.

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NovAtel Garners FAA Contract for 3rd-Generation WAAS Receiver
October 2, 2013

NovAtel Garners FAA Contract for 3rd-Generation WAAS Receiver

NovAtel G-III WAAS Reference Receiver

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has contracted with NovAtel Inc. to produce and deliver 176 Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) third-generation reference receivers (G-III).

The contract also includes engineering support for the G-III receiver as well as the current generation reference receiver (G-II), Geostationary Earth Orbit Uplink Subsystem – Type 1 (GUST) receiver, and Signal Generator (SIGGEN).

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Harm Claim Thresholds May Be Coming for GNSS
October 1, 2013

Harm Claim Thresholds May Be Coming for GNSS

A group of top frequency experts recommended last week that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) conduct a pilot test of the concept of “harm claim thresholds” (HCTs), an approach that requires receiver manufacturers to build devices capable of withstanding a predetermined level of interference from users in adjacent frequencies.

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Air Force May Delay Phasing Out L2 Semi-Codeless Signal

Air Force May Delay Phasing Out L2 Semi-Codeless Signal

The Air Force may hold off on phasing out codeless and semi-codeless access to the GPS L2 signal in light of delays to GPS modernization, experts told attendees at the recent Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) meeting. The issue will likely be discussed as part of the formulation of the 2014 Federal Radionavigation Plan (FRP).

“Semi-codeless retirement in 2020 is being evaluated,” said Col. Colonel Harold Martin, deputy director of the National Coordination Office for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT).

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Obama Administration Directive Lifted Limits on NSA Domestic Spying, including GPS Location Data
September 30, 2013

Obama Administration Directive Lifted Limits on NSA Domestic Spying, including GPS Location Data

In 2008, the campaign of President Barack Obama pioneered the use of social media to power his way to the White House. In 2010, the president unleashed the National Security Agency (NSA) to collect and analyze details — including geolocation derived from GPS and other positioning technologies — of billions of American citizens’ telephone calls, e-mails, and social media such as Facebook.

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Galileo Launch Delayed; EU States Begin PRS Tests
September 17, 2013

Galileo Launch Delayed; EU States Begin PRS Tests

As engineers painstakingly work their way through tests of the first full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellite at the European Space Agency’s European Space Research and Technology Center (ESA/ESTEC) in Noordwijk, The Netherlands, European space sources have acknowledged that the new-generation spacecraft’s maiden voyage will not occur until December 28, and even that date looks highly unlikely.

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AFIT Signs Agreement on GPS Technology Development with Locata
September 16, 2013

AFIT Signs Agreement on GPS Technology Development with Locata

Locata’s VRay Orb-80 antenna

The Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) and Locata Corporation, based in Canberra, Australia, have announced the signing of a co-operative research & development agreement (CRADA) to build and demonstrate new Locata multipath mitigation technology for use in GPS receivers. This cooperation is expected to leverage many years of proprietary Locata ground-based technology development to bring completely new capabilities to satellite-based GPS receivers.

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