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South Korean launch fails
The Korea Space Launch Vehicle 1 is thought to have blown up soon after take-off. The launch was South Korea’s second attempt to put a satellite in space, after a launch in August 2009 failed.
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Commercial Airport Mapping Database by …
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Indian Cabinet approves national policy on data sharing
The Union Cabinet, at a meeting chaired by the Prime Minister approved the National Policy on Data Sharing which enables making such information available in the public domain. However, the general public may not get …
RUAG Space selected to provide equipment for Galileo satellites
RUAG Space has been selected to supply components worth a total of approximately 35 million Euros to equip 14 satellites in the European Galileo navigation program. In addition to the central control computers and further electronic components, RUAG Space will also be responsible for manufacturing alignment mechanisms …
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GPS IIIB Program progress
Lockheed Martin has successfully completed a key requirements review for the GPS IIIB satellite series under the U.S. Air Force’s next generation GPS III Space Segment program. The team which also includes ITT and General Dynamics, recently completed a …
Says Sanjai Kohli, Father of Mass Market GPS and Inventor Extraordinaire
Congratulations on winning the European Inventor Award 2010 along with Steven Chen for your outstanding work on developing powerful chipsets. The GPS industry has already felt the impact of your invention, how do you feel about the recognition finally being accorded to you?
We knew that …
August 2010
Bengaluru Space Expo
25-28 August
Bangaluru, India
http://www.bsxindia.com
September 2010
ITS/Navigation Shanghai 2010
1-3 September
Shanghai, China
www.naviforum.org/
ESA International Summer School on GNSS
1-11 September
Denmark
www.munich-satellite-navigation-summerschool.org/
IPIN 2010
September 15-17, 2010
ETH Zurich, Campus Science City
(Hoenggerberg), Switzerland
www.geometh.ethz.ch/ipin/
ION GNSS 2010
21 – 24 September
Portland, Oregon, USA
www.ion.org
G-Spatial Expo
19-21 September
Yokohama, Japan
g-expo@jsurvey.jp
www.g-expo.jp/en/
GDI APAC
28-30 September
kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
www.geopatialdefenceasia.com
International Astronautical Congress 2010
27 Sep – 01 Oct
Prague Czech Republic
iac2010@guarant.cz
www.iac2010.cz/en
Geospatial Intelligence Summit
28-30 September 2010
Vienna, Austria
www.jacobfleming.com
October 2010
INTERGEO
5-7 October
Cologne, …
The Gulf of Mexico oil spill
A botched job
An unfolding disaster…
with a long lasting impact
Incidentally, more affected ones happen to be the most powerful.
The blame game is on…
Definitely, there is a mounting crisis.
Once again
Any lesson learnt?
Bal Krishna, Editor
bal@mycoordinates.org
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Precise Orbit Determination of a
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Hua Su and Bernd Zimmermann
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On the back of recent announcements by Google and Nokia signaling their intentions to provide free turn-by-turn satellite navigation as applications on their smart phone devices, it is more clear than ever that the satellite navigation industry is on the brink of experiencing drastic changes. Once an industry dominated almost entirely…
Accurate and continuous position computation is a key task for vehicle navigation and telematics applications. In most portable car navigation and telematics devices, the position is determined based only on GPS data. However, in urban canyons stand-alone GPS suffers signal masking and reflections of the signal from buildings, large vehicles, and other reflective surfaces. Driving tests in such metropolises as Hong Kong…
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