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European GNSS Supervisory Authority Launches EGNOS Portal

European GNSS Supervisory Authority Launches EGNOS Portal

A DGAC ATR42 test aircraft lands at Limoges airport during EGNOS trials. (ESA photo)

The European GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA), on behalf of the European Commission, has launched an Internet portal for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) designed to help developers and entrepreneurs vying for a slice of the emerging satellite navigation market.

The European counterpart to the U.S. GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS), EGNOS is a satellite-based augmentation system that provides real-time differential corrections and integrity information about GPS operations.

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5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies (NAVITEC)

5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies (NAVITEC)

"Multi-GNSS Navigation Technologies: The Beginning of a New Age" is the theme of the 5th ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation Technologies.

In addition to multi-GNSS issues, the event will focus on signal design, signal processing, GNSS payload technology effects and integration of navigation technologies with communication services.

The European Space Agency event will be held from December 8 to 10, 2010 at ESTEC, Noordwijk, Netherlands.

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Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies
March 18, 2010

Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies

Prof. Grigoriy Stupak. JPL/IGS photo

[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.

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By Inside GNSS
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Sampler Plate from Munich Summit
March 9, 2010

Sampler Plate from Munich Summit

Tony Russo, U.S. National Office for Space-Based PNT

Ah, another Munich Summit plenary session filled with many already-knowns and former unknowns, the latter mostly conveyed in nuances and bon mots.

More about that in news reportage to come.

But in the event’s venue, a recently restored All-Saints Church under der Residenz, the speakers may have felt a little lingering moral pressure to tell the truth. So, a sampler plate of comments may be in order.

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By Inside GNSS
2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS
February 24, 2010

2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS

The theme of the 2010 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS is "At a Turning Point." It will take place at Howard International House in Taipei, Taiwan on October 26-28.

National Cheng Kung University is organizing and hosting the event. The symposium will be held in English.

The annual forum is open to innovative ideas on GNSS systems, techniques, applications and opportunities by researchers and engineers from academia and industry.

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By Inside GNSS
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JAXA Gives QZSS Satellite a Nickname - “Michibiki"
February 3, 2010

JAXA Gives QZSS Satellite a Nickname – “Michibiki”

Quasi-Zenith satellite orbit

The Japanese Space Agency has selected a nickname for its first GNSS satellite: “Michibiki.”  JAXA received more than 11,000 entries in its recent contest to raise national awareness of the GPS augmentation program.

The first of three Quasi-Zenith satellites will launch during the Japanese 2010 fiscal year, sometime before March 31, 2011. 

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By Inside GNSS
APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting
January 14, 2010

APEC GIT/14: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation GNSS Implementation Team Meeting

The 14th Meeting of the APEC Global Navigation Satellite System Implementation Team will be held at the Marriott Renaissance Hotel in Seattle, Washington USA from June 21-24, 2010.

Registration is open online at the web address below.

The last meeting held in Singapore tabled a draft strategy for 2010-15 that emphasized intermodal GNSS transportation applications. It will also serve as the focus of the Seattle meeting.

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By Inside GNSS
USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup
January 12, 2010

USCG Publishes Loran-C Termination; DHS Says Not Needed for GPS Backup

Loran on ice

(UPDATED January 7, January 12) The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) posted a notice in the Federal Register on January 7 certifying that termination of the Loran-C signal will not adversely affect the safety of maritime navigation and that decommission will begin on February 8 with all Loran stations expected to cease transmitting the Loran-C signal by October 1, 2010.

Meanwhile, the Department of Homeland Security has certified that the Loran-C system infrastructure is not needed as a backup to the GPS system or to meet any other federal navigation requirement.

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By Inside GNSS
Asia Oceania Region Workshop on GNSS
January 7, 2010

Asia Oceania Region Workshop on 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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