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CISME 2010: China (Shanghai) International Mapping & Surveying Equipment

CISME 2010: China (Shanghai) International Mapping & Surveying Equipment

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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GPS Wing Transition Set
March 23, 2010

GPS Wing Transition Set

Col. Bernard Gruber

The 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 Software Receiver Workshop: IEEE/ION PLANS conference

IFEN Software Receiver Workshop: IEEE/ION PLANS conference

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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The Weilheim Dish — Keeping an Eye on Galileo
March 19, 2010

The Weilheim Dish — Keeping an Eye on Galileo

From left, Johann Furthner, Walter Päffgen (managing director of Galileo Control Center), and Steffen Thölert

Up 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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Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies
March 18, 2010

Russia to Put 8 CDMA Signals on 4 GLONASS Frequencies

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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Bright Ideas Welcome at 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition
March 12, 2010

Bright Ideas Welcome at 2010 European Satellite Navigation Competition

European Satellite Navigation Competition Awards 2009

The 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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Delays Continue to Plague Europe’s Galileo GNSS Program
March 11, 2010

Delays Continue to Plague Europe’s Galileo GNSS Program

Paul Verhoef, GNSS Programs Manager, European Commission

At 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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Sampler Plate from Munich Summit
March 9, 2010

Sampler Plate from Munich Summit

Tony Russo, U.S. National Office for Space-Based PNT

Ah, 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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March 8, 2010

Don’t Forget the Memory

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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Downloadable GPS — Who’d Have Imagined?
March 7, 2010

Downloadable GPS — Who’d Have Imagined?

Wikimedia Commons

The S-Bahn from Munich’s airport rolls through the frigid Bavarian fields and suburbs toward the main train station — my jumping off spot for the Munich Satellite Navigation Summit.

On its front page, the Frankfurter Allgemeine newspaper laments the return of winter to Germany just as the crocuses had managed to push their heads through the frozen earth, and on our night-time approach to the airport the lighted villages amid the snowy landscape evoke thoughts of Christmas more than Easter.

But enough with the weather report.

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Munich SatNav Summit 2010: Did we get it right last year?
March 6, 2010

Munich SatNav Summit 2010: Did we get it right last year?

Inside GNSS editor Glen Gibbons in the Bavarian Alps

I’m on my way, with Inside GNSS Business Development Director Richard Fischer, to the 8th Munich Satellite Navigation Summit in Germany — the big one for European GNSS politics and program updates.

While we’re in the air, I thought I’d take a look back at last year’s conference to see if the GNSS operator predictions matched the results (To keep me honest – here’s my March 6 online news report from the 2009 Munich Summit.)

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