Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Spectracom has introduced two timing-related products, the GSG 6-Series GPS/GNSS simulator for testing receivers’ timing capabilities and the SecureSync Timing Reference with enhanced Loran (eLoran) backup capability for GNSS.
Kevin Dennehy with Gen. Peter Pace, former head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, at an Association for Public-Safety Communications Officials (APCO) conference.Kevin Dennehy, a seasoned GNSS industry conference developer, columnist and writer and a retired Army National Guard officer, has joined Inside GNSS. As managing editor, he will be responsible for reporting online about the GNSS industry and working with Editor and Publisher Glen Gibbons on the print edition.
Contact him with company news and new product announcements at <kevin@insidegnss.com>.
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National Cheng Kung University, TainanThe 2016 International Symposium on GNSS, an annual event for researchers and the satellite navigation industry in the Asia Pacific region, will take place in Tainan, Taiwan on December 5,6 and 7 in the International Conference Hall of the National Cheng Kung University (NCKU).
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A First-to-Market Galileo Update for Numerous JLT Products Allows Concurrent Operation of GPS/Glonass/BeiDou With the New Galileo Satellite Navigation System — Improving Performance and Reliability
Jackson Labs Technologies, Inc. (JLT), a designer and manufacturer GNSS, timing and frequency equipment, has announced several new products with full support for Europe’s Galileo system, including a Galileo-Enabled Multi-GNSS Disciplined Oscillator (GNSDO) and a free software retrofit that adds Galileo functionality to existing products.
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Istanbul Congress Center (ICC)The 41st scientific assembly of COSPAR, the Committee On Space Research, originally scheduled from July 30 – August 7, 2016, at Istanbul Congress Center (ICC), Istanbul, Turkey, due to the recent attempted coup by factions of the Turkish army.
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Eric Hutchinson, Spirent’s Chief Executive Officer, (left) receives the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) Duke of Edinburgh Navigation Award for Technical Achievement from the Institute’s Patron, His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh (right). Looking on is the President of the RIN, Captain James Taylor OBE RN.
Spirent’s Positioning Technology Unit Receives RIN’s Navigation Award for Technical Achievement
Spirent Communications plc’s Positioning Technology Unit was presented with the Royal Institute of Navigation (RIN) Duke of Edinburgh Navigation Award for Technical Achievement at a ceremony in London, England, yesterday (July 19, 2016).
One of 12 magnetograms recorded at Greenwich Observatory during the Great Geomagnetic Storm of 1859
1996 soccer game in the Midwest, (Rick Dikeman image)
Nouméa ground station after the flood
A pencil and a coffee cup show the size of NASA’s teeny tiny PhoneSat
Bonus Hotspot: Naro Tartaruga AUV
Pacific lamprey spawning (photo by Jeremy Monroe, Fresh Waters Illustrated)
“Return of the Bucentaurn to the Molo on Ascension Day”, by (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
The U.S. Naval Observatory Alternate Master Clock at 2nd Space Operations Squadron, Schriever AFB in Colorado. This photo was taken in January, 2006 during the addition of a leap second. The USNO master clocks control GPS timing. They are accurate to within one second every 20 million years (Satellites are so picky! Humans, on the other hand, just want to know if we’re too late for lunch) USAF photo by A1C Jason Ridder. 
Detail of Compass/ BeiDou2 system diagram
Hotspot 6: Beluga A300 600ST
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Absolutely Everywhere, The World
Jade Morton, in the front row at the right, with her sisters and grandmother
>>Jade Morton’s Compass Points
Yu — or Jade, in English — Morton is an electrical engineer, a professor at Colorado State University (bound for the University of Colorado Boulder in 2017), and a shining star in the world of GNSS. She left work for eight years to be a full-time mother, then returned to a university professorship and high-level research, where she has been recognized for her work on ionospheric effects on global navigation satellite systems.
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DoT Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology Gregory WinfreeA Federal Register notice published on July 7, 2016 announced Department of Transportation (DoT) plans to conduct additional testing of GPS/GNSS receivers this month as part of their Adjacent Band Compatibility (ABC) Study. The notice was issued by DoT Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology Gregory Winfree.
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The Stanford Center for Positioning, Navigation and Timing and the Marconi Society jointly sponsor the 10th Annual PNT Symposium at Stanford on November 1, 2 and 3. It will take place at the Kavli and Panofsky Auditoriums at the Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory in Menlo Park.
A highlight of this year’s event is the awarding of the Marconi Prize to Brad Parkinson, Stanford professor emeritus, for his contributions to the development of GPS.
Attendance is by invitation.
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GSS7000Spirent Communications has launched the GSS7000 series of multi-frequency, multi-GNSS RF constellation simulators.
The GSS7000 series emulates all civil GNSS systems and regional augmentation systems, and allows devices to be tested under a multitude of operating environments and error conditions. According to Spirent, the GSS7000 has the flexibility to reconfigure satellite constellations, channels and frequencies between test runs or test cases. Four software control variants are offered: SimTEST, SimREPLAY, SimREPLAYplus, and SimGEN.
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University of Nottingham Professor Terry MooreTerry Moore, director of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute (NGI) at the University of Nottingham, will receive the J. E. D. Williams Medal on July 19 for his significant and varied contributions to the Royal Institute of Navigation (UK), in particular his leading role in staging its major conferences.
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Q: How does one compute the noise power to simulate real and complex GNSS signals?
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