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October 31, 2010

China Launches Another Compass/Beidou-2 GEO Satellite

Compass G4 satellite and Long March rocket on Xichang launch pad displays new Beidou logo.

[UPDATED Oct. 31, 2010) China has launched its fourth Compass/Beidou-2 satellite this year, shortly after midnight today (November 1, 2010, local time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province.

This is the sixth satellite in the second-generation Beidou constellation. The spacecraft will join three other GEOs, a middle Earth orbiting spacecraft, and an inclined geosynchronous orbiting (IGSO) satellite.

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Galileo Operations Contract, EGNOS SoL Service Move Ahead

At European Space Policy Conference: From left, Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Mercedes Bresso, President of the European Committee of the Regions, Vittori Prodi, Member of the European Parliament. ESA photo – S. Corvaja, 2010

Amid continuing debate over how to handle budgetary shortfalls in building a European GNSS, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a €194 million ($270.5 million) contract on October 25 with Spaceopal to provide space- and ground-based services to operate the Galileo constellation once it has been fully deployed.

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October 30, 2010

Asia Multi-GNSS Demonstration Project Schedules Second Workshop in November

Organizers of an ambitious project in the Asia/Oceania region demonstrating the benefits and opportunities for using multiple GNSS systems are moving ahead in their effort to design and implement a five-year campaign.

The 2nd Asia Oceania Regional Workshop on GNSS will be held in Melbourne, Australia, on November 21–22, in the two days before the Asia-Pacific Regional Space Agency Form (APRSAF) annual meeting in the city.

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ABI Research: Mobile Phone GPS Navigation Grows Substantially But PNDs Still on Top

ABI Research says that a recent survey revealed that, although portable navigation devices (PNDs) remain the most used form factor, the number of mobile phones with navigation software in the car is growing substantially in the United States, up to 24 percent this year from 19 percent in 2009.

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October 18, 2010

Augmented Reality Navigation System Nabs Galileo Master Award in Satellite Navigation Competition

A Salzburg, Austria–based start-up company, Mobilizy, took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 (ESNC 2010) for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality (AR) to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones.

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Mobile Voting Application Wins USA Challenge

A secure mobile application that enables secure voting and polling from location-capable mobile devices has won the 2010 USA Challenge — the North American regional event in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).

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Topcon Adds Mapping System

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS), Livermore, California, has announced the addition of the IP-S2 HD Mapping System to its line of mobile mapping solutions.

The IP-S2 HD is a vehicle-mounted surveying and mapping system featuring a high-definition LiDAR scanner from Velodyne Lidar, Inc. The system incorporates high-precision GNSS receivers, an inertial measurement unit, vehicle wheel encoder, 360-degree digital cameras and Velodyne’s HDL-64E S2.2 LiDAR scanner.

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Spirent, AGI Announce Joint Software Integration

Spirent and Analytical Graphics, Inc. (AGI) have announced the integration of AGI’s STK (Satellite Tool Kit) and Spirent’s SimGEN software.

Spirent says the link enables the software packages to communicate to allow trajectories created in STL to be used readily to define the motion in Spirent’s hardware GNSS simulators. SimGEN test-case motion also can be visualized in STK.

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October 12, 2010

OlinkStar Offers GNSS Products Using Current Compass/Beidou-2 Signals

OlinkStar CC100-BG Beidou-GPS module

Despite the absence of official published specifications for China’s Compass/Beidou-2, a number of GNSS companies have announced plans to build Compass-capable receivers — in some cases “future-proofing” their products so as to be upgradeable when a Beidou-2 Interface Control Document becomes available.

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October 11, 2010

Trimble Acquires Terralite Line from Novariant

Trimble has acquired the Terralite assets from Novariant, Inc., to expand the Sunnyvale, California–based company’s portfolio of positioning solutions.

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October 5, 2010

GAO on GPS (Again): Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist

A new report on the GPS program from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) finds the situation considerably improved from last year, when its prediction of a significant risk of the satellite constellation falling below 24 satellites set off alarms in Congress and among the user community.

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October 4, 2010

NovAtel, Hemisphere GPS Launch Rival Products

Calgary, Alberta: Canadian high-tech center and home to rivals NovAtel and Hemisphere GPS

Two Canadian companies — NovAtel and Hemisphere GPS — that over the years had positioned their products somewhat separately along the GNSS OEM technology spectrum appear to be moving toward a more head-to-head competition.

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October 2, 2010

USA Challenge GNSS Applications Contest Picks Five Finalists

[UPDATED Oct. 21, 2010] Contestants from all over the United States and the world have sent in their new GNSS apps to the USA Challenge — the North America regional contest in the 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC).

The judges, all GNSS business and technology experts, have ranked the submissions.

And the five best satellite navigation applications ideas are . . .

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China Launches Another Compass/Beidou-2 GEO Satellite

Galileo Operations Contract, EGNOS SoL Service Move Ahead

Asia Multi-GNSS Demonstration Project Schedules Second Workshop in November

ABI Research: Mobile Phone GPS Navigation Grows Substantially But PNDs Still on Top

Augmented Reality Navigation System Nabs Galileo Master Award in Satellite Navigation Competition

Mobile Voting Application Wins USA Challenge

Topcon Adds Mapping System

Spirent, AGI Announce Joint Software Integration

OlinkStar Offers GNSS Products Using Current Compass/Beidou-2 Signals

Trimble Acquires Terralite Line from Novariant

GAO on GPS (Again): Challenges in Sustaining and Upgrading Capabilities Persist

NovAtel, Hemisphere GPS Launch Rival Products

USA Challenge GNSS Applications Contest Picks Five Finalists