Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The European Commission (EC) has appointed a new deputy director in the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, who will have among his responsibilities overseeing the three units responsible for Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).
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Antonio Tajani, EC Vice-President. EC photoA European Commission (EC) communication sent to the European Parliament and European Council today (January 18, 2011) estimates that completing a fully operational capability (FOC), 30-satellite Galileo system and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) will cost an additional €1.9 billion above the €3.4 billion already allocated.
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Berry Smutny. OHB-System photoBerry Smutny has become the first GNSS casualty in the WikiLeaks war.
The CEO of OHB-System AG was suspended on Monday (January 17, 2011) "with immediate effect," according to the company.
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Berry Smutny, OHB-System CEO. OHB-System photoOHB-System AG, builder of Galileo navigation satellites, has issued a statement from its chairman denying a WikiLeaks report that the German company’s CEO had told U.S. embassy officials that the European GNSS program was a “stupid idea” and “a waste of EU tax payers money.”
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[updated January 18, 2011] Carlo des Dorides has been named as the new executive director of the European GNSS Agency (formerly the Galileo Supervisory Authority or GSA).
He will succeed Heike Wieland, who leaves at the end of January to become principal legal council at the European Patent Office. Wieland served as GSA acting director following the departure of Pedro Pedreira last June.
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Galileo receiver designers require formal interface specifications for the Galileo signal-in-space (SIS) in order to write unambiguous and accurate specifications for Galileo receivers. To compute their positions, Galileo receivers must be able to retrieve timing and orbital information from the data stream conveyed in Galileo analog signals.
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Bushy House
Britain’s Position, Navigation and Timing Network of the Digital Systems
KTN (Knowledge Transfer Network) presents a one-day workshop on
"GNSS Interference, Detection and Mitigation."
Professor Martyn Thomas will present the
conclusions of the Royal Academy of Engineering report on GNSS vulnerability, which was released on March 8.
The workshop will take place at Bushy House, National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, Middlesex on Thursday, March 10 2011 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Topics include:
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Soyuz launch of IOV satellite. ESA illustrationEurope’s Galileo space-based navigation system still awaits launch of its first in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites — now set for August 2011 — but the program is rolling out a steady stream of announcements of milestones reached.
Most recently, European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) officials inaugurated the Fucino Galileo Control Center, 130 kilometers (81 miles) east of Rome, which will be responsible for the Ground Mission Segment.
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GMV will launch the SRX-10, a software GPS receiver for mass-market applications, at this year’s GSMA Mobile World Congress, scheduled February 14–17 in Barcelona, Spain.
As a fully hosted solution, all SRX-10 receiver functions — even signal acquisition and tracking — can be hosted on a general purpose CPU with only the requirement of adding on a low cost RF front-end, according to the company.
The company cites other benefits offered by its new software receiver, particularly its substantial flexibility and upgradeability.
NavCom Technology, Inc., has announced new capabilities for the SF-3050 multi-frequency GNSS receiver and Sapphire GNSS OEM board.
In addition to the integrated StarFire/real-time kinematic (RTK) GNSS capabilities, the SF-3050 and Sapphire now support single-frequency, multi-constellation operation, heading, and moving base station RTK operation that enables coordinated vehicle applications.
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SpectraTime passive hydrogen physics packageSpectraTime has announced that it signed an €11 million contract with Selex Galileo S.p.A to supply the core element of the passive hydrogen masers (PHMs) for the first 14 full operational capability (FOC) Galileo satellites.
A second contract to supply the secondary atomic clocks (Rubidium Atomic Frequency Standards) should be signed in early 2011, according to the Neuchâtel, Switzerland–based member company of the Orolia Group.
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ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and European Space Council co-chair Sabine Laruelle, Belgian science minister. Photo: ESA – S. CorvajaWhile funding and technical issues continue to roil the waters at the program and operational level, Galileo and the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) have received a strong reaffirmation of support from the highest levels of the European Union (EU) and the European Space Agency (ESA).
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Antonio TajaniAmid continuing debate over how to handle budgetary shortfalls in building a European GNSS, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a €194 million ($270.5 million) contract on October 25 with SpaceOpal to provide space- and ground-based services to operate the Galileo constellation once it has been fully deployed.
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