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September 5, 2011

GNSS Signals 2011: European Workshop on Signals and Signal Processing

ENAC campus courtyard

The fifth European workshop on GNSS signals and signal processing will take place at ENAC headquarters (École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile), in Toulouse, France on December 8 and 9, 2011.

The workshop will give an overview of GNSS signals, characteristics, and performances related to any of the navigation, positioning, timing, attitude determination and scientific GNSS services. Papers have been accepted on the use of EGNOS (3,4) and GALILEO (1,2) signals, and all other GNSS signals for operational and/or scientific applications, with 1 to 5 frequencies.

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PTTI 2011: Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting

The 43rd PTTI meeting will be held at the Hyatt Regency Long Beach in Long Beach, California on November 14-17, 2011.

Each year, experts meet to exchange precise time and time interval information at the user level, inform government and industry of the technology and its challenges, discuss new technology and review present and future PTTI requirements.

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Eighth European Space Weather Week

Namur Palais des Congres

The 8th European Space Weather Week conference will take place in Namurs, Belgium from November 28 to December 2 ,2011. The conference venue is the old stock exchange of the Walloon capital, transformed into a convention center.

The annual event is sponsored by the European Space Agency. This year, the local organizer is the Solar-Terrestrial Center of Excellence (STCE).

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Space Reflecto 2011

Detail from the collections of the Calais lace museum

The Space Reflecto international workshop on passive reflectometry using radiocom space signals will be held in Calais, France on October 27 and 28, 2011. The conference venue is the auditorium of a former lace factory transformed into a museum – Cité Internationale de la Dentelle et de la Mode de Calais.

Topics of particular interest to Inside GNSS readers include:

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September 4, 2011

Telematics@China Conference

The 2011 Telematics@China conference and exhibition will be held at the Shanghai Marriott Hotel City Centre in Shanghai, China from Wednesday through Friday, December 7-9.

The annual event, which began in 2008, is sponsored by the Automotive Engineers of China (SAE-China) and supported by a number of government departments. The conference will feature 90 speakers from all sectors of the telematics industry. Organizers expect 1,000 attendees from China and the rest of the world.

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August 31, 2011

2010 USA Challenge Winner to Test Mobile Voting App at ION GNSS in September

eVotz plans to make the voting booth passé.

The 2011 USA Challenge will give ION GNSS participants a chance to pick their favorite satellite navigation application from this year’s contest using eVotz, a mobile voting platform that won the competition last year.

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FCC May Require Further Tests on LightSquared Interference to GPS (or Maybe Not)

[Updated September 2, 2011] Amid White House efforts to keep a lid on the process and congressional hearings on the subject, the controversy surrounding LightSquared’s interference to GPS could compel the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to require another round of testing — this time of the wireless broadband company’s lower L-band frequencies.

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Launch Failures Plague Russian Space Program, Delay GLONASS Schedule

Completion of the GLONASS constellation, delayed by a series of mishaps in Russia’s space program, may move ahead with a launch in September, according to Russian sources, if the Soyuz carrier is cleared for further use. A tentative launch from the Plesetsk space center has been set for September 25. The launch was originally scheduled for August 15.

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August 30, 2011

House Science Committee Reschedules LightSquared GPS Interference Hearing

Now that Hurricane Irene and summer vacation have blown over, members of Congress are returning to Washington, D.C., to resume — among other things — addressing the question of LightSquared’s interference to GNSS.

A hearing originally scheduled for August 3 is back on the agenda for the U.S. House Science, Space, and Technology Committee and now scheduled for 2 to 4 p.m. on September 8.

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August 26, 2011

Trimble Launches New OEM GNSS Modules, Enclosure

Trimble BD920

Trimble has introduced two new GNSS OEM modules, the BD910 and BD920, featuring centimeter-level, real-time kinematic (RTK) positioning capabilities optimized for high-precision and control applications.

The BD910 and BD920 modules are designed to allow OEMs and system integrators to easily add centimeter-level positioning to specialized or custom hardware solutions.

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August 25, 2011

Full Series of Kai Borre’s EasySuite II Available for Download

Kai Borre

Download Easy Suite II (Adobe Acrobat PDF)

In 2009, Inside GNSS began a two-year occasional series by Danish geodesist Kai Borre called "GPS Easy Suite II: A Matlab Companion."

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August 22, 2011

2SOPS Takes Over IIF-2, Moves to Replace SVN-30 with Spare

Command and control of the second GPS Block IIF satellite has been turned over to the 50th Space Wing’s 2nd Space Operations Squadron (2SOP) at Schriever Air Force Base, Colorado, today (August 22, 2011).

The Space and Missile Systems Center’s (SMC) GPS Directorate, located at Los Angeles Air Force Base, retained control of the satellite during a 30-day on-orbit checkout period before the hand-off to 2 SOPS.

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August 17, 2011

Chronos Signs GPS/GSM Jamming Protection Contract

Chronos Technology has announced the signing of a Framework Agreement with the UK Centre for Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) to provide tools and guidance for the impact assessment of GSM/GPS jamming devices.

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GNSS Signals 2011: European Workshop on Signals and Signal Processing

PTTI 2011: Precise Time and Time Interval Systems and Applications Meeting

Eighth European Space Weather Week

Space Reflecto 2011

Telematics@China Conference

2010 USA Challenge Winner to Test Mobile Voting App at ION GNSS in September

FCC May Require Further Tests on LightSquared Interference to GPS (or Maybe Not)

Launch Failures Plague Russian Space Program, Delay GLONASS Schedule

House Science Committee Reschedules LightSquared GPS Interference Hearing

Trimble Launches New OEM GNSS Modules, Enclosure

Full Series of Kai Borre’s EasySuite II Available for Download

2SOPS Takes Over IIF-2, Moves to Replace SVN-30 with Spare

Chronos Signs GPS/GSM Jamming Protection Contract