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October 2010
CHINA
Another Compass/Beidou-2 GEO Launched
China has launched its fourth Compass/Beidou-2 satellite this year, shortly after midnight today (November 1, 2010, local time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province. [more]
UNITED STATES
Full Employment: New Job List for PNT Advisors
[GNSS Signals Exclusive] The Space-Based Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Executive Committee (ExCom) has issued a new set of tasks that it wants its advisory board to take up over the next 14 months. [more]
EUROPE
Galileo Pushes On
[GNSS Signals Exclusive] Amid continuing debate over how to handle budgetary shortfalls in building a European GNSS, the European Space Agency (ESA) signed a €194 million ($270.5 million) contract on October 25 with Spaceopal to provide space- and ground-based services to operate the Galileo constellation. [more]
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RUSSIA
GLONASS NEARS COMPLETION
[GNSS Signals Exclusive] After a nine-year rebuilding effort, Russia's GLONASS satellite constellation is nearing full operational capability  once again. [more]
ASIA/OCEANIA
Multi-GNSS Demo Campaign
[GNSS Signals Exclusive] Organizers of an ambitious project in the Asia/Oceania region are moving ahead in their effort to design and implement a five-year campaign demonstrating the benefits and opportunities for using multiple GNSS systems. [more]
USA CHALLENGE
And the eVOTZs Are In!
A secure mobile application that enables secure voting and polling from location-capable mobile devices has won the 2010 USA Challenge - the North American regional event in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC). [more]
SATNAV APPLICATIONS
Augmented Reality Application Wins
A Salzburg, Austria-based start-up company, Mobilizy, took home the €20,000 grand prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2010 (ESNC 2010) for its revolutionary navigation system Wikitude Drive, which uses augmented reality (AR) to superimpose driving directions over live street video on smartphones. [more]
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