Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
The GPS Spectrum Protection Team has received the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) Partnering for Excellence Award for outstanding performance in support of the government and industry-wide assessment of potential impacts to GPS operations and safety.
The spectrum protection team played an important role in responding to the proposed LightSquared wireless broadband system’s spectrum plan.
By Inside GNSS
Locata Corporation has announced that its integration partner, Leica Geosystems Mining, has begun to sell and ship to their global mining customers the world’s first Locata-powered positioning systems.
By Inside GNSS
GIOVE-A mated with Fregat launcher upper stage. ESA photoAn experimental GPS receiver, built by Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), has successfully achieved a GPS position fix at a 23,300-kilometer altitude — the first position fix above the GPS constellation on a civilian satellite, according to the company.
SSTL’s SGR-GEO receiver is collecting data that could help the company to develop a receiver to navigate spacecraft in geostationary Earth orbit (GEO) or even in deep space.
By Inside GNSS
ABI Research: GNSS IC market shares in non-cellular applicationsGlobal sales of the smallest GNSS form factor — the integrated circuit (IC) — will exceed $3 billion next year, driven in large part by incorporation of position/location capabilities in smartphones, according to a leading research organization.
By Inside GNSS
A top leadership change is under way at one of the most important U.S. GPS policy and management organizations, the National Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Coordination Office (NCO).
Anthony (Tony) Russo, who has served as NCO director for the past three years — and as deputy director for two years before that, has accepted a new position with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
By Inside GNSS
This is, as they say in Hollywood, a wrap.
The final issue of our seventh year heads off to the printer. And tomorrow I will point my car north and west, returning as generations of Americans have done over the centuries to the family farm, the “home place,” for Thanksgiving.
Because this is the season for gathering in and counting up. For gratitude at what we have received in the year past, and for those untoward things that we have avoided.
By Inside GNSS
The 2012 AGU fall meeting will take place from December 3 through December 7 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, California.
Keynote speakers include Ira Flatow, host of National Public Radio’s Science Friday program; Dr. Surbra Suresh, director of the National Science Foundation; and Sir Robert Watson, whose career includes stints at JPL, NASA, the World Bank and now chief scientific advisor to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs;
By Inside GNSS
The GPS program has taken a fiscal hit that will delay critical plans to begin multi-satellite launches and could ultimately hamper the Air Force’s ability to keep the constellation at its current level of service.
The shortfall is just one of the challenges facing the program over the next four months as the current six-month budget extension winds down, the government’s ability to borrow runs out, and, barring a fast political deal, the onerous budget cuts set up under sequestration kick in.
By Dee Ann Divis
This free workshop on GNSS will take place at the Berjaya Times Square Hotel in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on December 8, 9 and 10, 2012.
Registration is limited to the first 100 people. The deadline for registration and abstract submission is November 22.
This is the fourth Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS. It is organized by Multi-GNSS Asia (MGA), whose aim is to promote GNSS interoperability, development, use and applications in the region.
By Inside GNSS
The sixth conference on Recent Advances in Space Technology (RAST 2013) will take place at the Harbiye Military Museum close to the Istanbul Convention Center (ICEC) in downtown Istanbul, Turkey. It will run from June 12 through June 14.
By Inside GNSS
With the election finally over, and the chain of decision makers now largely clear, the spectrum war between LightSquared and the GPS community is heating up again with new fronts opening at the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Congress.
The focus of the action are changes to rules governing spectrum and receivers that, if enacted, could enable LightSquared to move forward with its plans for a high-powered, terrestrial broadband network.
By Inside GNSS
[Updated November 17, 2012] Hemisphere GPS, the latest incarnation of a home-grown Canadian company, has announced plans to close its Calgary, Alberta, headquarters and exit the OEM GNSS business, and is currently seeking a buyer for its Precision Products and R&D assets.
By Inside GNSS
A U.S. Navy program that uses technology developed by a Raytheon-led team to land aircraft in harsh weather has been recognized with a Department of Defense (DoD) engineering award.
The Joint Precision Approach and Landing System (JPALS) Increment 1A ship system received the Systems Engineering Top 5 Programs Award for "successful implementation of systems engineering best practices resulting in program success," according to the DoD.
By Inside GNSS
