October 30, 2014

Under Congressional Pressure, U.S. Agencies Maneuver on eLoran Relaunch, GPS Backup

[SIGNALS Exclusive] Prodded by Congress, the federal government is reexamining its decision to abandon eLoran, a network of ground stations capable of supplying essential timing and positioning data to power, phone, and other critical networks if something happed to GPS. (more)
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8th GPS IIF Satellite Launches Successfully

The eighth GPS Block IIF navigation satellite launched successfully yesterday (October 29) at 1:21 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on board United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket. (more)

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UK eLoran Now in Operation to Back Up GPS

[SIGNALS Exclusive] Technology to counter the threat of GNSS jamming is now available at Dover and along the east coast of the United Kingdom as the island nation continues to implement an enhanced Loran (eLoran) system that is setting an example for the world. (more)
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New Home (or Not) for Galileo in European Commission

The European Parliament voted on October 22 to accept President-elect Jean-Claude Juncker's "last-chance" leadership for the European Commission (EC). But the 11th-hour reshuffling of posts appears to leave Galileo without a clear-cut leader, at least at the political level - even as the Commission and its European Space Agency (ESA) partner have decided to give up the prospect of a December launch of two satellites. (more)

Airbus GNSS Engineers Win Top ESNC 2014 Prize

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) has gone Big Time. Unlike past years, when product designers and engineers from small- and medium-sized (SME) companies have walked away with the top prize, this year's overall winner was Airbus Defence & Space (Airbus DS GmbH), a division of the Airbus Group (formerly EADS). Headquartered in France and generating annual revenues of €14 billion, Airbus DS was established last year by the merger of the parent company's Airbus Military, Astrium, and Cassidian units. (more)

India Lofts Third IRNSS Spacecraft into Orbit

ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C26, successfully launched IRNSS-1C, the third satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS), from Satish Dhawan Space Center last Thursday (October 16, 2014 local time). (more)

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