Global Navigation Satellite Systems Engineering, Policy, and Design
Dejian Kong is a PhD researcher at the International Institute of Air and Space Law, Leiden University, the Netherlands.
He finished his master study in civil and commercial law from Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China) with an air law thesis entitled “Legal Study on the Possessory Lien over Civil Aircraft”.
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Alexis Bose is a system design engineer from the University of Waterloo.
Although he was accepted to the University of McGill for a Master’s in Signal Processing, Alexis chose to work as a DSP/FPGA Engineer for eight years and as a research engineer at the Communications Research Centre (CRC) Canada for the last five years.
Alexis enjoys solving real world problems, by developing a concept and carrying it through to implementation.
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Stan Goff is managing editor of Inside GNSS. He is responsible for day-to-day operations and production of the print publication and insidegnss.com.
Goff lives and works in the Chicago area, where he spent 17 years as a senior editor and executive editor for Advanstar Communications business-to-business magazines. Earlier, he was a sports editor for Sun Publications.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in journalism from Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.
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NEO-M8P GNSS module. Photo Source: u-blox.Thalwil, Switzerland-based u-blox has announced that two of its products have been used by Cobilsys to create a small, battery-powered asset tracking device.
Cobilsys’ ATPACK tracker measures 53 by 48 by 15 millimeters and can be used to track the location of cars, motorcycles, and pets, the company said. The product uses a u-blox EVA-M8M, the industry’s smallest GNSS module, which works with GPS, Galileo, GLONASS, and BeiDou, the company said.
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Eliza Schmidkunz is cofounder and partner in Gibbons Media and Research LLC, publishers of Inside GNSS. From 2006 through 2016, she was a staff writer and editor at the magazine and the author of "GNSS Hotspots," a regular column.
Previously, she worked as communications director for the University of Oregon School of Law, the state’s public law school.
Pavel Kovar is a professor of radio engineering, radionavigation, and avionics systems at the Czech Technical University in Prague.
He was a designer of avionics and military transceivers at Mesit Pristroje Ltd and designed the piNAV receiver for LEO satellite at SkyFoxLabs Ltd.
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Bryan W. Welch is an electronics engineer in the Advanced High Frequency Branch (Code LCF) at NASA Glenn Research Center (GRC) in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Joel J. K. Parker is an aerospace engineer in the Navigation and Mission Design Branch (Code 595) at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where he contributes to several projects in the fields of mission design, navigation, and space policy.
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Scott Pace is the director of the Space Policy Institute and a professor of practice in international affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.
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A. J. Oria joined Overlook Systems Technologies, Inc. in 1998. Since 2003 he’s provided GPS, navigation policy, and engineering subject matter expertise in support of PNT activities to the SCaN office at NASA Headquarters, and is currently program manager for NASA support.
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Jennifer Donaldson is an aerospace engineer in the Components and Hardware Systems Branch at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she is involved in numerous projects related to GPS, GNSS, and spacecraft navigation.
Donaldson is an RF Engineer for the Tracking and Data Relay Satellite M (TDRS-M) project and is project manager of NASA’s Next Generation Broadcast Service (NGBS).
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Frank H. Bauer is president of FBauer Aerospace Consulting Services (FB-ACS), and provides systems engineering, guidance navigation and control (GN&C), space-borne GPS and GNSS, space vehicle formation flying, small spacecraft development expertise and consultation services to NASA.
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James J. Miller is the deputy director of the Policy & Strategic Communications Division with the Space Communications and Navigation Program (SCaN) at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Headquarters in Washington, D.C.
Miller is responsible for advising NASA leadership on U.S. and international positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) policy and technology issues. He is also the executive director of the National Space-Based PNT Advisory Board.
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