Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
TRC Test TrackNews reports about the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) Distracted Driving Summit now underway in Washington, D.C., (September 30–October 1) have focused on the role of mobile phones in vehicle accidents. According to transportation officials, driver distraction was involved in 16 percent of all fatal crashes during 2008.
By Inside GNSS
GLONASS Launch, September 25, 2008A problem caused by the signal generator in an on-orbit GLONASS-M satellite (#726) led the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) officials to delay a scheduled September 25 launch of three new spacecraft.
Sergey Revnivykh, deputy director general of Roscosmos’s Central Research Institute of Machine Building, told Inside GNSS today (September 30) that the agency has set up a task force that includes Revnivykh to investigate the problem with the on-orbit satellite and to ensure that the new spacecraft are free of similar technical difficulties.
By Inside GNSS
Penina Axelrad and ION Kepler AwardPenina "Penny" Axelrad, University of Clorado professor of aerospace engineering sciences, has received the Johannes Kepler Lifetime Achievement Award from the Institute of Navigation (ION) Satellite Division.
The institute made the award on the final day (September 25) of its ION GNSS 2009 conference held in Savannah, Georgia.
By Inside GNSS
An increasingly likely $97.4-million cut in the GPS OCX budget for fiscal year 2010 (FY10) would slow down work on modernization of the operational control segment, but the Air Force would try to recoup any reduction in the FY11 budget.
Meanwhile, technical problems that have delayed development of the follow-on generation of Block IIF satellites are largely resolved and a first launch is expected in May 2010.
By Inside GNSS
u-blox has its support of Microsoft Corp.’s initiative to facilitate development of location-aware applications on Windows 7.
Through the release of u-blox’ driver supporting Microsoft’s Sensor and Location application programming interface (API), software developers will have a standardized interface to the entire line of u-blox GPS chips and modules, according to Michael Ammann, u-blox’s vice-president of embedded software. The Sensor and Location platform for Windows 7 provides a simple way to access data from a wide range of external sensors.
By Inside GNSS
Anritsu Corporation, a Japanese manufacturer of test and measurement equipment, has selected IFEN’s NavX-NCS Standard GNSS simulator as its assisted-GPS (A-GPS) test system for use in developing mobile terminals.
The NavX-NCS is a GNSS RF navigation constellation simulator capable of simulataneously simulating signals from up to nine L-band frequencies in the GPS, Galileo, GLONASS (including its new G1 frequency), and QZSS systems.
By Inside GNSS
The European Commission (EC) expects to declare in October that the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) — which provides satellite-based augmentation signals for GPS and Galileo — is operationally ready as an open and free service for non-safety-of-life (non-SoL) applications, according to a press release from the GNSS Supervisory Authority (GSA).
By Inside GNSS
The 746th Test Squadron (746 TS) will offer authorized GPS users another testing and training opportunity in its series of JAMFEST events on November 2–6 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
Introduced in May 2004, JAMFEST provides a realistic GPS jamming environment for testing GPS-based navigation systems.
The American Geophysical Union (AGU) fall meeting includes more than 600 sessions and attracts 16,000 attendees from universities, government agencies and scientific societies. Its scientific program covers topics in all areas of Earth and space sciences and cuts across the boundaries of multiple disciplines.
It will be held in the West and South buildings at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco from December 14 to December 18 2009.
By Inside GNSS
GeoWAY, now in its fifth year, will cover intelligent transport systems and satellite navigation. It will take place in Pavillion 1, Hall 1 at the Crocus Exposition Center in Moscow, Russia from March 30 to April 2 2010.
It is one of the four specialized exhibitions of GeoForm+ 2010, the seventh international industrial Forum of geodesy, cartography, navigation, geoinformation systems, engineering geology and geophysics, tunnel and utility systems construction.
By Inside GNSS
The sixth European Space Weather Week gathering will take place November 16-20 2009 at the Oud Sin-Jan conference center in Bruges, a UNESCO world heritage site. The welcome reception will take place in the Gothic Meeting Hall of the city.
The meeting is divided into five sessions on topical themes and a wrap-up of the key issues and a roundtable discussion on future European directions in space weather.It will also include a space weather fair.
The abstract submission deadline is September 14, 2009.
By Inside GNSS
This year, the International Symposium on GPS/GNSS, which rotates throughout the Asia-Pacific region, will take place in semitropical Jeju, Korea’s only island province, November 4 to 6, 2009.
The theme is "Interchangeability for PnP GNSS".
The chair of the program committee is Chungnam National University Professor Sang Jeong Lee.
By Inside GNSS
PCTEL’s WAAS antennaPCTEL, Inc., of Bloomingdale, Illinois USA, announced that its high-precision Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) ground station GPS antennas will be deployed in India’s GPS-Aided Geosynchronous Augmented Navigation (GAGAN) system.
By Inside GNSS
