Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
IET Headquarters, LondonThe Institution of Engineering and Technology’s April seminar on Galileo and GNSS includes what organizers call a "rare chance" to hear the UK government’s point of view on key challenges and funding of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system over the next twelve months.
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The UK Institution of Engineering and Technology will sponsor a one-day seminar on Galileo and GNSS on Thursday, April 29 at the IET headquarters on the Thames Embankment, Savoy Place, London.The event runs from 9 A.M. to 5 P.M.
Speakers include GNSS experts EADS Astrium, Helios, Roke Manor Research Ltd, SSTL, Logica and University College London.
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The 2010 CISME exhibition, including three GNSS-related symposia, will be held at the Shanghai EverBright Convention Center April 8 through 10.
"Digital China Based on Innovation" is the them of the China (Shanghai) International Mapping and Surveying Equipment exhibition.
The three symposia covering GPS, GIS and remote sensing technologies, are: 2010 National Survey Technology, 2010 Shanghai Remote Sensing Technology and 2010 Shanghai Geophysics.
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Col. Bernard GruberThe Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC) at Los Angeles Air Force Base, California, has established the schedule for the transition of command at the GPS Wing.
Incoming commander Col. Bernard Gruber will assume command on July 30. Outgoing commander Col. David Madden will retire from the Air Force in June and take up new responsibilities at SMC as a civilian, assuming command of the Military Satellite Communications Wing on July 19.
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IFEN GmbH is hosting a SX-NSR Software Receiver Workshop during the IEEE/ION PLANS conference, on Wednesday, May 5.
The workshop focuses on multi-sensor, multi-frequency GNSS signal analysis with the company’s SX-Navigation software receiver.
It takes place from 9:30 A.M. to 11:30 A.M. at the Renaissance Esmeralda Resort and Spa.
Thomas Pany, IFEN senior research engineer, and Bernhard Riedl, IFEN product manager, will speak. They will discuss:
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From left, Johann Furthner, Walter Päffgen (managing director of Galileo Control Center), and Steffen ThölertUp close and personal, the curved aluminum antenna dish at Weilheim — painted white and aimed vaguely skyward, with a big Krupp corporate logo on the front — looked a lot bigger than 30 meters across. And when we climbed up the steel stairs to the platform half-way up the dish, the ground looked a lot further away than 20 meters.
And that was before Peter, overseeing the DLR facility this late winter afternoon, flipped the switch and set the antenna in motion — 240 degrees each direction horizontally, 90 degrees in the vertical.
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Prof. Grigoriy Stupak. JPL/IGS photo[Corrected March 20] Russia is “close to completion” of a coordination plan for the “whole set of GLONASS signals” that will include eight different CDMA signals on four frequencies, according to Prof. Grigoriy Stupak, deputy director general of the Russian Institute of Space Device Engineering (RISDE) and the general designer for the GLONASS system.
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The 2010 CISME exhibition, including three GNSS-related symposia, will be held at the Shanghai EverBright Convention Center April 8 through 10, 2010.
"Digital China Based on Innovation" is the theme of the 2010 China (Shanghai) International Mapping and Surveying Equipment exhibition.
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European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards 2009The European Satellite Navigation Competition (Galileo Masters), now in its seventh year, is seeking the best ideas for satellite navigation applications from companies, entrepreneurs, research institutes, universities, and individuals. Prizes total more than €500,000.
The 2010 contest begins on May 1, when competitors may register and submit their ideas online at the secure ESNC website. It closes on July 31.
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Paul Verhoef, GNSS Programs Manager, European CommissionAt this week’s (March 9–11) Munich Satellite Navigation Summit, Galileo program officials — public and private — acknowledged that it faces delays at both ends of its latest schedule.
At the near end, the lead contractor for the Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites that it is building with a consortium of companies said the first IOV will not launch in 2010 as per the most recent schedule. Instead, said Mike Healy, director of navigation for EADS Astrium, the satellite will not be ready for launch until probably February 2011.
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Tony Russo, U.S. National Office for Space-Based PNTAh, another Munich Summit plenary session filled with many already-knowns and former unknowns, the latter mostly conveyed in nuances and bon mots.
More about that in news reportage to come.
But in the event’s venue, a recently restored All-Saints Church under der Residenz, the speakers may have felt a little lingering moral pressure to tell the truth. So, a sampler plate of comments may be in order.
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A dramatic site in the Columbia River Gorge,a few miles outside of Portland, OregonAbstracts are due this Friday for the fall ION GNSS conference.
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Our hosts at Infineon Technologies AG today kept wanting to apologize for the snow, but Richard Fischer and I assured them that Oregon and New Jersey were no strangers to the stuff. Especially Richard, coming off this year’s season of perpetual storms on the East Coast.
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