FAA, White House Lay Out Path for Small UAS Operations
Apparently working overtime during the President's Day weekend, the U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) on February 15 proposed a framework of regulations that would allow routine use of certain small unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) while maintaining flexibility to accommodate future technological innovations. (more)
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DoT Sets Another GPS/GNSS Workshop on Adjacent Band Compatibility, Receiver Testing
A Federal Register notice published on February 13 announced a third U.S. Department of Transportation workshop on March 12 to continue discussions of the Global Positioning System (GPS) Adjacent Band Compatibility Assessment Plan. (more)
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Federal Court Drops All But Two Claims by LightSquared against GPS Companies
A U.S. District Court has dismissed most of two lawsuits brought in 2013 against GNSS manufacturers stemming from the effort by LightSquared Inc. to build a high-powered broadband wireless network using RF spectrum adjacent to the GPS L1 band and allocated for mobile satellite services (MSS). (more)
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Galileo Satellites Reach French Guiana for March Launch
Two more Galileo full operational capability (FOC) satellites have reached French Guiana in preparation for a late-March launch from the European spaceport there. (more)
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ICAO Recommends New Flight-Tracking Performance Standard
Member states of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) recommended the adoption of a new 15-minute aircraft tracking standard yesterday (February 3, 2015) during discussions among more than 850 participants to the UN aviation body's 2015 High Level Safety Conference in Montreal, Canada. (more)
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GPS Budget Cut by Nearly $100 Million as White House Pares GPS III Funds
The White House showed continuing support for the GPS program with a budget request that was, with one key exception, comparable to that of previous years. That exception though, a cut to GPS III procurement including the zeroing out of advance procurement monies, resulted in an overall program reductions of roughly $100 million. (more)
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