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June 18 Webinar: GNSS /INS Integration Applications
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 22.05.2013.
Inside GNSS will host an applications-oriented web seminar on GNSS and inertial integrated systems on Tuesday, June 18.
The free event is sponsored by KVH Industries.
Webinar presenters are Xavier Orr, an R&D engineer of 3D navigation technologies at Advanced Navigation in Australia and Andrey Soloviev, principal at Qunav LLC and a research engineer who focuses on multi-sensor integration for navigation applications.
GNSS Solutions editor and University of Calgary professor Mark Petovello moderates.
GPS Civil Funding Request Slashed
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 20.05.2013.
China Conference Highlights Plans for BeiDou in International Marketplace
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 20.05.2013.
ESA Adds System Time Offset to Galileo Navigation Message
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 20.05.2013.
The four Galileo in-orbit validation (IOV) satellites now on orbit have begun broadcasting the “offset” between the GPS and Galileo system time, accurate to a few billionths of a second, according to the European Space Agency.
With satellite navigation based around the highly accurate measurement of signal travel times, both Galileo and GPS have their own internal reference time systems used to synchronize all system clocks, including those in the ground segment, on satellites, and in receivers.
European Commission to Host Workshop on Galileo and EGNOS Apps
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 14.05.2013.
The European Commission (EC) Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry will hold a workshop in Brussels, Belgium, on June 4 to address applications of the European Union satellite navigation programs, Galileo and EGNOS.
The first part of the workshop will focus on the past and future activities of the EC aiming to maximize and ensure the market uptake of European GNSS downstream applications.
Fourth GPS IIF Satellite Launched
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 15.05.2013.
The fourth GPS Block IIF satellite, space vehicle number (SVN) 66, was launched successfully today (May 15, 2013) on board a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket at 5:38 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida.
It was the first time that an Atlas V had been used to launch a GPS spacecraft.
White House Moves to Harden Infrastructure against GPS Disruption
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 13.05.2013.
Galileo Conversation: Regulation, Budget, Markets, and International Relations
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 30.04.2013.
Air Force Examining Broader Options for Next GPS III Satellite Buy
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 30.04.2013.
The Air Force will decide this fall whether to build more GPS III satellites or move to a new generation of spacecraft, the leader of Air Force Space Command told Congress last week.
“We’re on contract right now . . . through (GPS III) satellite vehicle number eight. Satellite vehicles nine and beyond – the acquisition strategy for that – will be debated in the fall,” General William Shelton, commander of Air Force Space Command (AFSPC), told the House Armed Services Committee on April 25.
BeiDou to Restart Satellite Launches Next Year, Shift B1 Signal Frequency after 2016
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 01.05.2013.
Defense Department CIO Teresa Takai Gets Positioning, Navigation and Timing Brief
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 30.04.2013.
A Department of Defense Directive (DoDD 5144.02) issued April 22 clarifies the positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) responsibilities for Teresa Takai, the assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration (NII) and the DoD’s chief information officer (CIO).
NASA Successfully Launches Three Smartphone Satellites
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 30.04.2013.
ET may have an improved method to phone home and satellite operators, a new way to position and control satellites — smartphones in space.
Russian Launches Another GLONASS-M Satellite
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 28.04.2013.
Russia launched another GLONASS-M satellite on Friday (April 26, 2013) on a Soyuz 2-1b rocket from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome.
GNSS summer school for young engineers to be held in Tokyo this August
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 25.04.2013.
Doctoral-level graduate students and early-career engineers, researchers and instructors from Japan and the rest of the world are invited to a weeklong summer seminar this August in Tokyo, sponsored by the Institute of Positioning, Navigation and Timing of Japan.
The summer school will take place in from August 19 through August 24 at the Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology (TUMSAT). Classes wil be held in English.
North Korea’s GPS Jamming Prompts South Korea to Endorse Nationwide eLoran System
From Inside GNSS News. Published on 24.04.2013.
GPS jamming attacks from North Korea that have increased in frequency and duration since they began August 2010 have prompted the South Korean government to implement an enhanced Loran (eLoran) systems that will cover the entire country by 2016.
The South Korean government completed design, development, and construction documents for the eLoran system in February and will procure the system infrastructure through international competitive bidding.
