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Successful Launch for Second GPS Block IIF Satellite
July 16, 2011

Successful Launch for Second GPS Block IIF Satellite

Launch of GPS IIF-2. United Launch Alliance photo by Pat Corkery

[updated July 16] Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 GPS Block IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIF-2, renamed Space Vehicle Number 63 (SVN-63), is functioning normally and ready to begin on-orbit maneuvers and operational testing.

After two postponements, the second  GPS Block IIF satellite launched successfully from Cape Canaveral at 2:41 a.m. EDT on July 16. A video of the launch was posted on YouTube and can be viewed here.

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China Satellite Conference 2011

China Satellite Conference 2011

Hotel Nikko New Century in Haidian, Beijing

This officially sanctioned conference and equipment exhibtion addresses applications, technologies and trends for China’s satellite communications, broadcasting, remote sensing, navigation and positioning.It will be held at Hotel Nikko New Century in Beijing on October 26.28, 2011.

Subjects of most interest to Inside GNSS readers include:

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Berlin GNSS Symposium 2011

Berlin GNSS Symposium 2011

Rathaus Wilmersdorf

The International Symposium on Global Navigation Satellite Systems, Space-based and Ground-based Augmentation Systems and Aplications will take place at the Wilmersdorf in Berlin on October 10 and 11. The event will be held in English.

This year, the focus is on EUPOS, a ground-based European GNSS augmentation system, and on the regional geodetic reference frames and systems, ground-based GNSS infrastructures and technical developments in the field of DGNSS.

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By Inside GNSS
SIRGAS 2011
July 10, 2011

SIRGAS 2011

El Fortin monument in Heredia, Costa Rica

SIRGAS 2011,  the annual working meeting of the organization in charge of the geocentric reference system for the Americas, will be held in Heredia, Costa Rica from August 8 to 10.

It will take place in Clodomiro Picado Twight auditorium at the Omar Dengo campus of the National University of Costa Rica.

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By Inside GNSS
2011 East Coast Seminars: NavtechGPS

2011 East Coast Seminars: NavtechGPS

NavtechGPS will offer its 2011 east coast GNSS technical seminars at the Doubletree Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland from Monday, July 11 through Friday, July 15.

Over 25 years, NavtechGPS has organized basic and advanced GNSS seminars for engineers and technical professionals all over the United States and has provided GPS/GNSS applications solutions for military and research customers, with product choices from more than 30 manufacturers.

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By Inside GNSS
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NTIA Asks FCC to Delay LightSquared Rollout
July 8, 2011

NTIA Asks FCC to Delay LightSquared Rollout

Lawrence E. Strickling, National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)

[Updated July 9, 2011] The National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) on July 6 asked the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to hold off on allowing LightSquared to begin commercial operations, pending further evaluation of the cellular broadband system’s interference to GPS.

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By Inside GNSS
ESA International Summer School on Navigation Satellite Systems 2011
July 6, 2011

ESA International Summer School on Navigation Satellite Systems 2011

Galileo Test and Development Environment (iFEN photo)

The 2011 International Summer School on GNSS will take place July 20 to July 30 in Berchtesgaden, Germany at the GATE facility (Galileo Test and Development Environment).

This year’s theme is Towards a Mutli-Constellation Multi-Frequency GNSS and SBAS.

You may still  register online for the waiting list. (Link here for the summer school program. )

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Lockheed Martin Team Completes GPS IIIB System Design Review
July 5, 2011

Lockheed Martin Team Completes GPS IIIB System Design Review

GPS III satellite. Lockheed Martin illustration

Lockheed Martin has announced the successful, on-schedule completion of a system design review (SDR) for the second-phase of next-generation GPS satellite development, the IIIB increment.

The company’s Space Systems division in Newtown, Pennsylvania, is under contract to produce the first two of a planned eight GPS IIIA satellites, with first launch projected for 2014. The contract includes a Capability Insertion Program (CIP) designed to mature technologies and perform rigorous systems engineering for future GPS III increments.

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By Inside GNSS
UAV-g 2011: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics

UAV-g 2011: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Geomatics

ETH Hönggerberg from the south (Hannes Röst photo)

The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) sponsors this conference and exhibition on UAVs and geomatics at Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg) in Zurich, Switzerland from September 14 through 16, 2011.

UAV-g 2011 will bring together experts in photogrammetry, surveying, robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and aerospace engineering.

Researchers, developers, service and systems providers and users are invited to exhibit and demonstrate their UAV systems in geomatics at at the Birrfeld airfield on Thursday, September 15.

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FCC Invites Comment on LightSquared Interference to GPS
July 2, 2011

FCC Invites Comment on LightSquared Interference to GPS

Individuals and organizations wishing to comment on the recently released technical working group (TWG) report on LightSquared’s interference to GPS as well as the company’s proposal for dealing with the problem have until July 30 to submit statements to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).

In a release dated June 30, the agency noted that the TWG effort “identified significant technical issues” related to potential LightSquared interference in the upper portion of the L-Band, next to the band used by GPS.

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