Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Three GLONASS-M satellites launched March 2 began transmitting healthy navigation messages today (March 28).
The Russian GNSS operational constellation now includes 23 spacecraft, including two spares in orbital plane III, slots 22 and 23, as well as GLONASS space vehicle 716, which remains in maintenance status with a malfunctioning signal generator.
By Inside GNSS
The Institution of Engineering and Technology’s April seminar on Galileo and GNSS includes what organizers call a "rare chance" to hear the UK government’s point of view on key challenges and funding of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system over the next twelve months.
By Inside GNSS
The UK Institution of Engineering and Technology will sponsor a one-day seminar on Galileo and GNSS on Thursday, April 29 at the IET headquarters on the Thames Embankment, Savoy Place, London.The event runs from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Speakers include GNSS experts EADS Astrium, Helios, Roke Manor Research Ltd, SSTL, Logica and University College London.
By Inside GNSS
[Updated March 27] The first of two teleconferences hosted by the GPS Wing underlined the U.S. Air Force’s desire to gain greater participation by manufacturers of user equipment in sorting out the options for mitigating the effects of a signal anomaly on the GPS satellite known as SVN49.
The March 26 teleconference, held on the same day as publication of a notice in the Federal Register inviting public comment on nine possible options for dealing with the anomaly, drew only a handful of participants. But the U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), which issued the invitation, and the GPS Wing, which has the lead in implementing an eventual decision, hope to see further industry participation in written comments and a second teleconference planned for April 30.
By Inside GNSS
The 2010 CISME exhibition, including three GNSS-related symposia, will be held at the Shanghai EverBright Convention Center April 8 through 10.
"Digital China Based on Innovation" is the them of the China (Shanghai) International Mapping and Surveying Equipment exhibition.
The three symposia covering GPS, GIS and remote sensing technologies, are: 2010 National Survey Technology, 2010 Shanghai Remote Sensing Technology and 2010 Shanghai Geophysics.
By Inside GNSS
The Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has established the schedule for the transition of command at the GPS Wing.
Incoming commander Col. Bernard Gruber will assume command on July 30. Outgoing commander Col. David Madden will retire from the Air Force in June and take up new responsibilities at SMC as a civilian, assuming command of the Military Satellite Communications Wing on July 19.
By Inside GNSS
Up close and personal, the curved aluminum antenna dish at Weilheim — painted white and aimed vaguely skyward, with a big Krupp corporate logo on the front — looked a lot bigger than 30 meters across. And when we climbed up the steel stairs to the platform half-way up the dish, the ground looked a lot further away than 20 meters.
And that was before Peter, overseeing the DLR facility this late winter afternoon, flipped the switch and set the antenna in motion — 240 degrees each direction horizontally, 90 degrees in the vertical.
By Inside GNSS
[Corrected March 20] Russia is “close to completion” of a coordination plan for the “whole set of GLONASS signals” that will include eight different CDMA signals on four frequencies, according to Prof. Grigoriy Stupak, deputy director general of the Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering (RISDE) and the general designer for the GLONASS system.
By Inside GNSS
The 2010 CISME exhibition, including three GNSS-related symposia, will be held at the Shanghai EverBright Convention Center April 8 through 10, 2010.
"Digital China Based on Innovation" is the theme of the 2010 China (Shanghai) International Mapping and Surveying Equipment exhibition.
By Inside GNSS
The GNSS Research and Applications Center of Excellence (GRACE) at University of Nottingham has rescheduled the lecture by Suresh V. Kibe, director of the GNSS programs at the Indian Space Research Organization, from March 8 until May 17.
By Inside GNSS
The European Satellite Navigation Competition (Galileo Masters), now in its seventh year, is seeking the best ideas for satellite navigation applications from companies, entrepreneurs, research institutes, universities, and individuals. Prizes total more than €500,000.
The 2010 contest begins on May 1, when competitors may register and submit their ideas online at the secure ESNC website. It closes on July 31.
By Inside GNSS
You walk past the dual-lion statue (pictured at right) as you enter a passage way from Odeonplatz to der Residenz, site of the just-concluded 8th Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.
There are actually four of these placed along a street paralleling the massive museum complex, and long-time Munich residents reach up to pat or rub the nose of the small leonine visage at the bottom of the shield — a gesture designed to bring good luck.
By Inside GNSS
At this week’s (March 9–11) Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Galileo program officials — public and private — acknowledged that it faces delays at both ends of its latest schedule.
At the near end, the lead contractor for the Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites that it is building with a consortium of companies said the first IOV will not launch in 2010 as per the most recent schedule. Instead, said Mike Healy, director of navigation for EADS Astrium, the satellite will not be ready for launch until probably February 2011.
By Inside GNSS
