Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
OlinkStar CC100-BG Beidou-GPS moduleDespite the absence of official published specifications for China’s Compass/Beidou-2, a number of GNSS companies have announced plans to build Compass-capable receivers — in some cases “future-proofing” their products so as to be upgradeable when a Beidou-2 Interface Control Document becomes available.
By Inside GNSS
Trimble has acquired the Terralite assets from Novariant, Inc., to expand the Sunnyvale, California–based company’s portfolio of positioning solutions.
By Inside GNSS
A new report on the GPS program from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds the situation considerably improved from last year, when its prediction of a significant risk of the satellite constellation falling below 24 satellites set off alarms in Congress and among the user community.
By Inside GNSS
The U.S. Air Force and the Raytheon Company team developing the GPS Advanced Control Segment (OCX) has successfully completed an integrated baseline review (IBR) for the next-generation system on schedule.
By Inside GNSS
Recent action by the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee has advanced a Fiscal Year 2011 (FY11) Defense spending bill (S. 3800) that essentially accepts the GPS elements of President Obama’s budget proposal, including $40.9 million for the high-integrity GPS (HIGPS) demonstration project.
By Inside GNSS
Norway and the European Commission signed a cooperation agreement on satellite navigation last week (September 22) that will make the Scandinavian nation — which is a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) but not the European Union — a fuller participant in the EU’s GNSS program.
By Inside GNSS
Catamaran Hotel, San DiegoThe Institute of Navigation International Technical Meeting (ITM) will take place January 24-26 at the Catamaran Hotel on Mission Bay in San Diego California.
Paul Kline of Honeywell Aerospace is the general chair. Jade Morton of Miami University, Ohio, is the program chair.
"Robotics Navigation" is the plenary session topic. Invited speakers will discuss current trends and future technologies that support navigation for surveillance, search and rescue, undergound and underwater robotics and unmanned air vehicles.
By Inside GNSS
Lingotto Fiere, Turin/Torino, ItalyThe second European conference and exhibition on smart infrastructures, infomobility, telematics and Galileo and other GNSSes will take place at Lingotto Fiere in Turin, Italy on November 11-12, 2010.
Presenter abstracts are due by October 7, 2010.
These subjects will be covered in the conference and/or the exhibit area:
By Inside GNSS
Prague Congress CentreThe workshop on GNSS Applications for Human Benefit and Development is sponsored by the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs and the International Astronautical Federation (IAF).
It is the 20th joint UN-IAF workshop and will be held at the Prague Congress Centre (PCC) in Prague, Czech Republic just before the 61st International Astronautical Congress that runs from September 27-October 1. Participants at either event are welcome at the other.
By Inside GNSS
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QZSS satellite separaes from the launcher (photo by Mitsubishi Heavy Industries)(UPDATED September 27) Japan’s first quasi-zenith satellite launched successfully from the Tanegashima space center on September 11, 2010 and reached its quasi-zenith orbit on Monday, September 27.
Michibiki means to guide or lead the way, appropriate for the first entry into Japan’s satellite augmentation program that will vastly improve GNSS accuracy over Japan and the rest of East Asia.
By Inside GNSS
The Portland skyline with a GPSIIF satellite is featured in the Inside GNSS booth at ION GNSS 2010by Glen Gibbons
Few would mistake Oregon for the beating heart of GNSS. Still, for a medium-sized U.S. metro area in the Pacific Northwest, Portland and Oregon’s I-5 corridor has enough relevant involvement with the industry to justify hosting the Institute of Navigation’s 2010 GNSS conference and exhibition.
Oregon has FLIR Systems, Cloud Cap Technology, TriQuint, Intel, Garmin and Inside GNSS magazine.
By Inside GNSS
Anthony Russo, director of the U.S. National Coordination Office (NCO) for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) The United States brought a strong message that it is pursuing a new direction in GNSS relations with China in presentations at the 2010 NaviForum in Shanghai last week.
By Inside GNSS
Eclipse II GNSS OEM BoardHemisphere GPS announced its next-generation Eclipse II GNSS receiver technology today (September 8, 2010) and the release of the Eclipse II OEM board.
By Inside GNSS
