Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The 2010 Toulouse Space Show will take place at the Pierre Baudis Convention Center in Toulouse, France on June 8-11 2010. It’s a veritable festival of European space applications.
It includes a commercial exhibition, technical events, and six conferences:
The European Commission (EC) announced today (January 7) the award of three of the six contracts for the procurement of Galileo’s initial operational capability (IOC), including a €566-million (US$811.2-million) award to OHB System AG for a first order of 14 satellites.
By Inside GNSS
The Asia Oceania Region Workshop on GNSS is a new event organized by Japan’s space agency and Satellite Positioning Research and Applications Center and GISTDA, Thailand’s space agency.
It will take place at the Sofitel Centara Grand Bangkok hotel on Monday and Tuesday, January 25-26, 2010.
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"GPS Jamming and Interference – A Clear and Present Danger" is the theme of this one-day conference sponsored by the Royal Institute of Navigation and the Location and Timing Program of Digital Systems KTN, a UK network funded by Britain’s Technology Strategy Board.
The event will be held at the National Physical Laboratory in Teddington (London) on Tuesday, February 23.
By Inside GNSS
Navman Wireless OEM Solutions has announced its new Jupiter4 GPS module for OEM applications, built upon the CSR-SiRF Technology SiRFstarIV architecture’s high-performance, low-power capabilities.
By Inside GNSS
The European Space Agency is sponsoring a free three day event in Brussels, Belgium to showcase new satellite navigation innovations and to encourage collaboration between small entrepreneurial companies and the major corporations involved in the buildout of Galileo.
By Inside GNSS
The Position Location And Navigation Symposium technical conference and industry exhibition is a forum for the latest navigation technology. It is held every other year in even numbered years. The 2010 event will be held at Renaissance Esmerelda Resort and Spa in Indian Wells, near Palm Springs, California.
Conference tutorials covering a number of topics from core navigation fundamentals to in-depth classes about the latest technologies will take place on May 3. Twenty-four half-day technical sessions are scheduled for May 4-6.
By Inside GNSS
Winners of key Galileo contracts will be announced January 7 or 8, following a quiet period after the European Space Agency (ESA) recommended the OHB System/Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) team for building the first round of eight full operational capability (FOC) satellites.
Former competitors ThalesAleniaSpace, Italy, and Logica, The Netherlands, reportedly will join forces to carry out the contract for Work Package 1, Galileo system support, which includes responsibility for system and signal-in-space engineering.
By Inside GNSS
Re-enactment of Washington’s Crossing. State of New Jersey photoLockheed Martin Space Systems bestowed a $400,000 Christmas present on a Pennsylvania park district, helping preserve the organization’s 57-year-old tradition of re-enacting Gen. George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware River in 1776 during the Revolutionary War.
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President Obama signed the Fiscal Year (FY10) consolidated appropriations bill (H.R. 3288) on Wednesday (December 16), which will fund a number of civil GPS initiatives in the coming year.
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Russia got its GNSS program back on track on December 14 with the launch of three modernized GLONASS-M satellites — resuming a schedule interrupted by problems with a navigation payload on an in-orbit spacecraft.
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Want to win $40k? DARPA gives you one day to locate 10 of these 8-foot weather balloons moored across the USA(Updated December 7, 2009) A Massachusetts Institute of Technology team won the DARPA Network Challenge on Saturday, December 5. They took home a $40,000 cash prize from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
The team successfully located 10 eight-foot diameter, bright red weather balloons moored in plain site at locations across the United States.
Apparently, the DARPA personnel in charge were sensitive to frigid winter weather in the heartland – most of the balloons turned out to be moored in pleasant places for an outdoor December search: Portland, Oregon; San Francisco and Santa Barbara, California; Scottsdale, Arizona; Katy, Texas; Memphis, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Charlottesville, Virginia; and Christiana, Delaware.
By Inside GNSS
Trimble will hold its first user conference in China on December 15-17 at the Jiuhua Resort and Conference Center in Beijing. It will cover civilian technology only.
The theme "Exploration Has No Boundaries," draws comparisons between 15th century navigator Zhenghe, the 2008 space mission Shenqui, and the use of positioning technology to steer exploration.
Trimble head Steve Bergland will deliver one of the conference keynotes.
By Inside GNSS
