Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Mita Kaigisho, site of the ICG-6 meetingICG-6, the sixth meeting of the UN’s Sixth Meeting of the International Committee on GNSS, will take place in Tokyo from September 5-9.
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Galileo Test and Development Environment (iFEN photo)The 2011 International Summer School on GNSS will take place July 20 to July 30 in Berchtesgaden, Germany at the GATE facility (Galileo Test and Development Environment).
This year’s theme is Towards a Mutli-Constellation Multi-Frequency GNSS and SBAS.
You may still register online for the waiting list. (Link here for the summer school program. )
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ETH Hönggerberg from the south (Hannes Röst photo)The Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) sponsors this conference and exhibition on UAVs and geomatics at Campus Science City (Hoenggerberg) in Zurich, Switzerland from September 14 through 16, 2011.
UAV-g 2011 will bring together experts in photogrammetry, surveying, robotics, computer vision, artificial intelligence and aerospace engineering.
Researchers, developers, service and systems providers and users are invited to exhibit and demonstrate their UAV systems in geomatics at at the Birrfeld airfield on Thursday, September 15.
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This is a 1993 photo of Walter, a German astronaut. He exemplifies the fearless approach to experimentation and the spirit of fun that we are looking for (DLR photo) [Updated June 30] Lucky you – you have three extra days to submit your GNSS application idea to the USA Challenge! The extended deadline is midnight Sunday (Europe) or 3 P.M. (Pacific time) on July 3.
Right now, some team is hard at work in a basement, an office, a dorm room or a lab. They are about to come up with a new, useful and commercially viable idea for a satellite navigation application or location based service.
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The two Soyuz ST-B launchers and Fregat-MT upper stages arrived at Kourou harbor on June 18 are the most powerful Soyuz-Fregat combination available, intended to launch the four Galileo IOV satellites. Arianespace photoSupporters of Europe’s Galileo system got some good news today (June 22, 2011) at the Paris Air Show: savings in the program have freed up funds that may be able to support acquisition of at least six additional spacecraft by 2014.
Taking part in a signing ceremony for the final Galileo work packages, European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani announced that improved program management and cost-cutting by industry vendors could free up €300 million ($482.8 million) — enough to ensure that 24 satellites could be launched by 2015.
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Accord Software and Systems Pvt. Ltd., of Bangalore, India, has announced two new GNSS chips, a system-on-a-chip (SOC) with GPS and integrated peripherals and a GPS/Galileo-comopatible RF front-end chip.
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An informal discussion at the 2010 symposium.The Symposium Gyro Technology has changed its name to Inertial Sensors and Systems because of the expanded focus and scientific topics covered at recent conferences. It will take place at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, Germany on September 21 and 21, 2011. The conference will be held in English.
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Near Hotel Oranje (hotel photo)Spirent engineers will lead a two day training conference on the company’s simulation equipment at Hotel Oranje in Noordwijk, Netherlands on June 21 and 22 2011.
The conference will consist of 11 training sessions followed by 4 hands-on workshops.
Topics include:
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After many delays, two European navigation satellites will take a ride on a Soyuz launcher to middle earth orbit from Europe’s space center in Kourou, French Guiana on October 20 2011. If all goes well, this will begin the operational phase of Galileo, Europe’s GNSS.
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Gda?sk Golden Gate- D?uga StreetIn 2012, for the first time, the annual European Navigation Conference and industry exhibition will take place in Gdańsk (Danzig), Poland.
It will be held at April 25-27 in the Filharmonia convention hall on Olowianka Island, near the historic center of the city.
The theme is "Navigation for the People." The conference will be held in English.
The abstract submission deadline has been now passed.
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Soyuz launcher during dry run at Kourou Spaceport. ESA photo. S. Corvaja[Updated June 1, 2011] Two Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites will comprise the first launch on a modified Soyuz rocket from the European Union’s spaceport in French Guiana.
Now scheduled for October 20, the launch will mark the beginning of the creation of the operational constellation for Europe’s GNSS system.
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In 2012, for the first time, the annual European Navigation Conference will take place in Gdańsk, Poland.
It will be held at April 25-27 in the Filharmonia convention hall on Olowianka Island. It is at the center of the one of the oldest Baltic cities, near many of the historical attractions of Gdańsk (Danzig).
The theme is "Navigation for the People." The conference will be held in English.
The event will also feature a technical exhbition for companies, institutes and others to demonstrate their products.
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If you are lucky enough to be nine to eleven years old and living in Belgium or Bulgaria, you could get your name on one of the first European navigation satellites.
Two of them will launch from French Guiana in September 2011. Although Europe already has test satellites in the sky, these launches will mark the beginning of Galileo, a global navigation satellite system much like GPS.
