Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Global sales of the smallest GNSS form factor — the integrated circuit (IC) — will exceed $3 billion next year, driven in large part by incorporation of position/location capabilities in smartphones, according to a leading research organization.
By Inside GNSS
A top leadership change is under way at one of the most important U.S. GPS policy and management organizations, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Coordination Office (NCO).
Anthony (Tony) Russo, who has served as NCO director for the past three years — and as deputy director for two years before that, has accepted a new position with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
By Inside GNSS
This is, as they say in Hollywood, a wrap.
The final issue of our seventh year heads off to the printer. And tomorrow I will point my car north and west, returning as generations of Americans have done over the centuries to the family farm, the “home place,” for Thanksgiving.
Because this is the season for gathering in and counting up. For gratitude at what we have received in the year past, and for those untoward things that we have avoided.
By Inside GNSS
[Updated November 23] Yuri Urlichich has been dismissed from his post as general designer of the GLONASS satellite navigation system, according to Russian news media reports.
The decision was made by the Russian military-industrial commission, which is headed by Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin.
Two weeks later, on November 23, Urlichich cited illness and resigned as director general of JSC Russian Space Systems, which contributes to the operation of a number of the nation’s leading space programs in addition to GLONASS.
By Inside GNSS
The 2012 AGU fall meeting will take place from December 3 through December 7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Keynote speakers include Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s Science Friday program; Dr. Surbra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation; and Sir Robert Watson, whose career includes stints at JPL, NASA, the World Bank and now chief scientific advisor to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;
By Inside GNSS
The International Civil Aviation Organization, a specialized agency of the United Nations, will hold its 12th Air Navigation Conference (AN-Conf/12) at the ICAO headquarters assembly hall in the Quartier National of Montreal from November 19 through November 30, 2012. The conferences take place every 10 years.
By Inside GNSS
The GPS program has taken a fiscal hit that will delay critical plans to begin multi-satellite launches and could ultimately hamper the Air Force’s ability to keep the constellation at its current level of service.
The shortfall is just one of the challenges facing the program over the next four months as the current six-month budget extension winds down, the government’s ability to borrow runs out, and, barring a fast political deal, the onerous budget cuts set up under sequestration kick in.
By Dee Ann Divis
NAVCOM 2012 will take place at the Research and Training Unit for Navigational Electronics (NERTU) auditorium, of Osmania University, Hyderabad, India on December 20 and 21. The conference is part of NERTU’s Pearl Jubilee celebration.
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This free workshop on GNSS will take place at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 8, 9 and 10, 2012.
Registration is limited to the first 100 people. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is November 22.
This is the fourth Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS. It is organized by Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA), whose aim is to promote GNSS interoperability, development, use and applications in the region.
By Inside GNSS
The sixth conference on Recent Advances in Space Technology (RAST 2013) will take place at the Harbiye Military Museum close to the Istanbul Convention Center (ICEC) in downtown Istanbul, Turkey. It will run from June 12 through June 14.
By Inside GNSS
This annual conference on the Croatian Adriatic aims at GNSS experts and covers the risks and vulnerabilities of the global navigation satellite systems and efforts to improve accuracy and reliability.
It will take place at Baska on the resort island of Krk in Croatia from April 18 to April 20, 2013.
The deadline for abstracts has passed.
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By Inside GNSS
With the election finally over, and the chain of decision makers now largely clear, the spectrum war between LightSquared and the GPS community is heating up again with new fronts opening at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress.
The focus of the action are changes to rules governing spectrum and receivers that, if enacted, could enable LightSquared to move forward with its plans for a high-powered, terrestrial broadband network.
By Inside GNSS
European officials broke ground today (November 16, 2012) at the site of the primary Galileo Security Monitoring Center (GSMC) in Saint Germain en Laye outside Paris.
The GSMC — the future heart of Galileo program security — will be responsible for several major tasks including overall management of Galileo system security, management of the Public Regulated Service (PRS) access, command and control of European GNSS in accordance with the European Unions Joint Action principle, and provision of PRS and GNSS security expertise and analysis
By Inside GNSS
