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December 8, 2016

Two More Galileo Satellites Transmitting Navigation Signals

After months of testing, the European Space Agency (ESA) has announced that Galileo satellites 13 and 14 are transmitting healthy navigation signals and ready to relay distress calls to emergency services.

The satellites, launched from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana on May 24, went through lengthy testing that included receiving and uplinking signals through specialized antennas, ESA said. Some of the tests included navigation and search and rescue payloads methodically switched on, the agency said.

By Inside GNSS

December 2, 2016

U.S. Transportation Department Starts Hunt for GPS Timing Backup Supplier

Federal officials are finally moving on a year-old, two-phase plan to establish a long delayed backup for the GPS system.

By Inside GNSS

December 1, 2016

Lockheed Martin Advances GPS Ground Control System for U.S. Air Force

The Air Force’s Global Positioning Systems Directorate contracted the CUP2 upgrade.

Lockheed Martin has announced a major upgrade to modernize the GPS ground control system, the company said. The commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) upgrade no. 2 (CUP2) project, which became operational in mid-October to manage the 31 GPS satellites, is the latest step in the U.S. Air Force’s plan to refresh technology and transform the legacy operational control segment, also known as the Architecture Evolution Plan (AEP), the company said.

By Inside GNSS

November 30, 2016

GAO: New GPS Ground System, Not GPS III Engineering, Primary Cause for Delays

Government watchdogs said in a new report that schedule slippages in the new GPS ground system — which in October had another four months added to its repeatedly extended schedule — are more of a factor in delays to GPS modernization than technical problems with the satellite’s payload.

By Dee Ann Divis

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou for Mobile Devices

The navigation sensors for location-based services (LBS) are complex technical systems. Modern technical science can answer most questions about the optimality of particular position determination methods, signal processing algorithms, electronic circuits or similar well-defined problems, but the rigorous answer to the questions concerning the optimal LBS positioning sensor are still a big problem.

By Inside GNSS

How Will GNSS Fare Under a Trump Administration?

With the Republican Party now entirely in charge of Washington’s prime policy real estate the neighborhood is going to change. The current residents are warily watching the newcomers take measurements for a major remodel of agencies, lobbying rules, national priorities, and international relationships, and everyone is assessing the implications of the new landscape.

By Dee Ann Divis

November 21, 2016

CSNC 2017: 8th China Satellite Navigation Conference

Shanghai, China

The 8th China Satellite Navigation Conference and exhibition will take place at the National (Shanghai) Center for Exhibition and Convention from May 23 through May 25 2017 in Shanghai, China.

Full papers are due now through December 20, 2016.

Online registration will be available February 15 – April 30, 2017.

By Inside GNSS

November 20, 2016

GPS PNT Enhances GOES-R Space Weather Satellite Mission

GOES-R primary capabilities. NOAA image

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite R-series (GOES-R) for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, yesterday (November 19, 2016) headed for geosynchronous orbit.

By Inside GNSS

November 17, 2016

European Commission, GSA Issue Third Call for Galileo, EGNOS R&D Contracts

The European Commission (EC) has opened the third round of competition for €33 million (US$35.15 million) in Horizon 2020 (H2020) contracts for development of European GNSS (EGNSS) applications exploiting use of Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).

By Inside GNSS

FIG Working Week 2017

Paasitorni by the Sea, Helsinki

The International Federation of Surveyors (FIG) FIG Working Week 2017 will take place on May 29 – June 2, 2017, at the Messukeskus Expo and Convention Centre in Helsinki, Finland.

Registration will open in November, 2016. Abstract submissions are now closed.

By Inside GNSS

MMT 2017: The 10th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology

The Saladin Citadel of Cairo

The 10th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology (MMT2017) will take place from May 6 – 8, 2017 at the Conrad Cairo Hotel, on the river Nile in Cairo, Egypt.

Online registration is available. Early bird rates end January 1, 2017.

By Inside GNSS

November 16, 2016

Congress Likely to Delay Action on Budget Items, Affecting GPS

Congress is back in Washington with a December 9 deadline to pass the 2017 Fiscal Year (FY17) federal budget and avoid a government shutdown.

Lawmakers are widely expected to pass another continuing resolution, or CR, leaving the final decisions on the FY17 budget until after President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January — an approach that could both help and hurt the Pentagon’s GPS modernization effort.

By Dee Ann Divis

NOAA Expands GNSS Data Sources for Weather Prediction

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) will purchase data from small commercial satellites to expand its GNSS radio occultation (RO) efforts to better predict weather.

In September NOAA, through the government’s Commercial Weather Data Pilot program, awarded contracts to San Francisco, California-based Spire Global ($370,000) and GeoOptics ($695,000), of Pasadena, California, to provide RO data. This data will be used to assess whether commercially provided information can be incorporated into the agency’s weather models.

By Inside GNSS

B: Applications

European Commission Declares Galileo Initial Services Available f...

Air Force Approves Lockheed Martin’s GPS Ground Control Des...

Two More Galileo Satellites Transmitting Navigation Signals

U.S. Transportation Department Starts Hunt for GPS Timing Backup Supplier

Lockheed Martin Advances GPS Ground Control System for U.S. Air Force

GAO: New GPS Ground System, Not GPS III Engineering, Primary Cause for Delays

GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou for Mobile Devices

How Will GNSS Fare Under a Trump Administration?

CSNC 2017: 8th China Satellite Navigation Conference

GPS PNT Enhances GOES-R Space Weather Satellite Mission

European Commission, GSA Issue Third Call for Galileo, EGNOS R&D Contracts

FIG Working Week 2017

MMT 2017: The 10th International Symposium on Mobile Mapping Technology

Congress Likely to Delay Action on Budget Items, Affecting GPS

NOAA Expands GNSS Data Sources for Weather Prediction