Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
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[UPDATED MAY 16] India’s GPS-Aided and GEO-Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) spacecraft will be carried into orbit on an Ariane-5 launcher from the European Space Agency (ESA) spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on May 21, 2011, according to an announcement from ISRO, the Indian space agency.
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Air vehicle, MQ-1B Predator system, Iraq 2008 (Military photo)Online registration is open for the 2011 Joint Navigation Conference, scheduled for June 28-20 in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
The FOUO event is the largest endorsed U.S. military navigation conference of the year, with joint service and government participation.
The annual JNC focuses on technical advances in guidance, navigation and control; especially on joint development, testing and support of affordable systems, logistics and integration.
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NASA’s May 3 announcement that its long-running Gravity Probe B (GP-B) mission had confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein’s general theory of relativity, mentioned GPS autoland techniques as one of the projects spinoffs.
However, the involvement of GPS technology and GPS experts in the mission was much deeper than the passing reference in a press release.
But first, the news.
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Registration is open for 2011 JNC – Joint Navigation Conference (Guidance, Navigation and Control) on June 28-30 at Crowne Plaza Hotel in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
Everyone who attends must apply and be approved before they come.
Tutorials will take place on June 27.
FOUO sessions on June 28-29 will take place at the Crowne Plaza.
The classified sessions on June 30 will take place at Elkhorn Conference Center, Fort Collins, Colorado
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Exhibit from the first Compass Satellite Navigation ConferenceThe second China Satellite Navigation conference will take place at Shanghai’s Expo Center on May 18-20, 2011.
The conference scientific chair is Prof. Sun Jiadong.
The aim of the conference is to build satellite navigation as an active academic field in China, to promote satellite system technology innovation and to strengthen the relationship between business and government for the advance of China’s Compass/Beidou system.
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Brisbane City Botanic Gardens facing Alice Street(See Glen Gibbons’ report from APEC/GIT-14 in Seattle, June 2010)
The fifteenth meeting of APEC’s GNSS Implementation Team will be held June 13-16 at Sofitel Brisbane Central, All Saints Convention Center in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
Online pre-registration is required and is limited to 50 delegates. Please contact either of the co-chairs if your password is not accepted on the GIT webpage registration screen.
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Tony Russo, Director, National Space-Based PNT Coordination OfficePressure is mounting on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and proponents of LightSquared’s plan to operate high-powered ground transmitters in spectrum adjacent to GPS L1.
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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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The U.S. Global Positioning System has garnered a long list of honors over the years, but a forthcoming presentation from the International Astronautical Federation (IAF) is one of the most remarkable yet.
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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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The 2011 Esri User Conference will be held at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, California from July 11 to July 15.
Of particular interest to Inside GNSS readers:
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Mike Dyment, General Partner, NextGen Equipage Fund LLC» Air Traffic Control Modernization (PDF)
In between partisan confrontations around the 2011 federal budget and raising the U.S. debt limit, prospects are improving for federal legislation that would provide the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) with a regular full-year budget for the first time since Fiscal Year 2007 — including support for completing the transition to a GNSS-driven air traffic control (ATC) system known as NextGen and a “public-private partnership” to equip aircraft with the needed avionics.
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