Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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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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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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 imageIn 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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Smithsonian staff prepare Ramsden sextant for mounting at Time and Navigation exhibit. Photo by Dee Ann DivisThanks 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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Florence 1493 stampThis 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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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.
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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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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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Figure 1. Galileo/GPS skyplot. HUST NAVIS Center figureA 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.
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President Obama has signed a continuing resolution, an omnibus federal spending measure that includes funding for the GPS program.
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The International GNSS Service (IGS), a worldwide federation of agencies involved in high-precision GNSS) applications, has announced the launch of its Real-Time Service (RTS).
The RTS is a global scale GNSS orbit and clock correction service that enables real-time precise point positioning (PPP) and related applications requiring access to IGS low latency products. The RTS is offered in beta as a GPS-only service for the development and testing of applications.
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Mitsubishi Electric Corporation and NEC Corporation have received contracts to build the spacecraft and ground control system, respectively, for Japan’s Quasi-Zenith Satellite System (QZSS).
The Japanese Cabinet Office announced the contract awards last Friday (March 29, 2013).
Mitsubishi will receive ¥50 billion (US$540 million) for building one geostationary satellite and two additional quasi-zenith satellites (QZSs) to join “Michibiki,” the first QZS launched on September 11, 2010.
This new international conference on GNSS technologies and applications for the development of sub-Saharan African countries will take place May 30 and 31 at the new bayside Terrou-Bi hotel and conference center in Dakar, Senegal.
The event targets entrepreneurs and companies from the EU and Africa that use GNSS technologies. The event is designed to showcase and promote African technical competencies with solid potential for success using EGNOS and Galileo services and the space sector in general.
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