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Location & Beyond Summit 2010 Features Location-Aware Innovation Awards
August 12, 2010

Location & Beyond Summit 2010 Features Location-Aware Innovation Awards

Wireless pioneer Andrew Seybold and Kanwar Chada, founder of SiRF Technology, will select the finalists for the People’s Choice awards for best location innovation at the 2010 Location & Beyond Summit on October 6. The event focuses on the "transformative effects of connecting everything and everyone, everyplace." 

The four-year-old summit — formerly Location 2.0 — will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise and Applications 2010 conference.

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Locations & Beyond Summit 2010

Locations & Beyond Summit 2010

The Locations & Beyond Summit — a four-year-old event with a new name — will be held at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco on October 6, 2010, during the CTIA Wireless Enterprise and Applications 2010 conference.

Organizer CSR says the event will focus on the " transformative effects of connecting everything and everyone, everyplace." Panels and discussions are aimed at developers of new location-aware products,applications, services and technologies. 

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GPS IIF Satellite Reaches Final Orbital Location
August 10, 2010

GPS IIF Satellite Reaches Final Orbital Location

Officials from the Air Space Space and Missile Systems Center’s GPS Wing announced today (August 10) that the first GPS IIF satellite (SVN-62) arrived on-station August 1. This indicates that the satellite is in its designated orbital position and ready for its final phase of on-orbit checkout and testing, to be completed before September. The satellite will then be cleared to serve navigation and timing users as part of the operational GPS constellation.

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Aldacom Offers GPS/Linux PC/GPRS Breadboard

Aldacom Offers GPS/Linux PC/GPRS Breadboard

Aldacom GmbH, of Neu-Isenburg, Germany, recently announced the debut of the AldaLogic C10/3, a breadboard containing an embedded Linux PC on a surface measuring 104 x 63 millimeters.

The unit also contains a Quad-band GPRS module and SiRF3 GPS module, as well as interfaces for USB, RS232 and Ethernet components. An SD-card reader enables expansion of the standard 4 Mb of flash memory.

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Firmware Update for NovAtel L1 OEMStar Receiver

Firmware Update for NovAtel L1 OEMStar Receiver

NovAtel Inc. recently announced the release of Version 1.011 firmware for its L1 OEMStar GNSS (GPS+GLONASS+SBAS) receiver, which the company says is designed to provide improved PDP and GL1DE filter performance, improved satellite tracking in low signal level environments, improved satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) performance when operating outside of the standard grid map, and improved time to first fix.

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Spectracom Launches GSG-54 8-Channel Simulator

Spectracom Launches GSG-54 8-Channel Simulator

Spectracom has introduced a new eight-channel GPS constellation simulator, the Pendulum GSG-54.

Designed to provide a wide-range of capabilities for in-line production testing of devices integrating GPS receivers, according to the company, the simulator features ease-of-operation, fast test cycles, and versatility in supporting the integration of GPS receivers into devices under development. The unit’s bench-top chassis is designed to be compact, portable, and easy to set up.

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Edinburgh’s SELEX Galileo to Supply Atomic Clocks for 14 Galileo Satellites
August 6, 2010

Edinburgh’s SELEX Galileo to Supply Atomic Clocks for 14 Galileo Satellites

Passive Hydrogen Maser (PHM) flight model on GIOVE-B (ESA photo)

SELEX Galileo, an Edinburgh, Scotland company, has signed a €30 million contract with with Surrey Satellite Technology LTD (SSTL) to supply PHM atomic clocks for all 14 Galileo FOC (full operational capability) satellites.

The PHM-Passive Hydrogen Maser- clock is the most stable for space
applications and has been tested successfully in GIOVE-B, the Galileo
system’s second validation satellite, which was launched in 2008. 

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By Inside GNSS
Topcon Releases Software for IP
August 2, 2010

Topcon Releases Software for IP

Topcon Positioning Systems (TPS) has announced the release of Spatial Factory software.

The software interface allows users to work with the combination of point cloud, trajectory, and panoramic image data that comes from the Topcon IP-S2 3D mobile mapping system.

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Hemisphere Launches GPS Vector II OEM Board

Hemisphere Launches GPS Vector II OEM Board

Hemisphere GPS has announced its Crescent Vector II OEM board and a series of related Crescent Vector II GPS compass products.

The new OEM board, targeted for system integrators, brings a series of new features to the company’s patented Crescent receiver technology, including heave, pitch, and roll output; more accurate timing, lower phase noise, and an improved accelerometer.

The Crescent Vector II design provides precise heading and positioning accuracy even while a mobile platform is motionless.

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50th Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) Meeting
August 1, 2010

50th Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) Meeting

The 50th Civil GPS Service Interface Committee (CGSIC) Meeting will be held on Monday, September 20 and Tuesday, September 21 at the Oregon Convention Center in Portland just before the 2010 Institute of Navigation GNSS conference at the same location.

For the first time, the CGSIC meeting will be hosted by ION and the CGSIC plenary session will be on the main agenda of the larger conference.

CGSIC subcommittee meetings will be held on Monday and the plenary session on Tuesday, a reversal of the usual order.

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China Launches 5th Compass (Beidou-2) Navigation Satellite — First IGSO

China Launches 5th Compass (Beidou-2) Navigation Satellite — First IGSO

Fifth Beidou-2 satellite launched. Xinhua/Du Cai photo

[Updated August 1, 2010] China’s state news agency has reported that the fifth Compass (Beidou-2) satellite — the system’s first inclined geostationary orbit (IGSO) spacecraft — was launched successfully at 5:30 a.m. Sunday (August 1 — local time) from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwestern Sichuan Province

This was the third Compass satellite put into orbit this year, following launches in June and January 2010.

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