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SEAGAL Project Collaboration Centre Opening in SE Asia
The Collaboration Centre on satellite navigation in South East Asia, whose setup has been co-funded by the EU, will open in Hanoi (Vietnam) on October the 1st at the presence of the Ambassador of the …

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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 …

More than 1,600 forest officers participated in the four-day long census of Asiatic lions at Gir, Gujarat. For the first time, GPS and GIS were used and headcount was done instead of tracking pugmarks, as was the case earlier.

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In the first of its kind initiative in Pune, India the state government has started tracking kerosene oil tankers with the help of GPS to keep a check on black marketing. The system has been installed in the kerosene tankers that get oil from depots of oil companies. The movement of tankers is tracked from …

The governments of Ukraine and Russia are completing preparations for signing an agreement on cooperation in the use and development of the GLONASS satellite navigation system. Ukraine’s demand for receivers for the GLONASS satellite system was estimated at 100,000 units per year.

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The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is modernizing its GPS to utilize advances in technology. Scientists at NOAA’s National Geodetic Survey said the effort is important for activities requiring accurate positioning information. It said the proposed changes will affect civilian-federal mapping authorities, as well as state and municipal governments that have adopted the National …

Researchers at Septentrio reported anomalies in the signal from the Compass M1 satellite. Analysis of high rate Doppler data from the E2 and E5b carriers revealed frequent spikes in the frequency of these carriers. These spikes were present in both the E2 and E5b bands (E6 had not been monitored in this analysis), and in …

The US Air Force finally launched the first GPS Block IIF satellite recently. GPS IIF is the first of a new generation of GPS satellites going into orbit. This will be the first GPS mission to launch on a Delta 4, after 49 missions launched atop the smaller Delta 2 between 1989 and 2009.
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The most recent upgrade to the GPS ground control segment created an incompatibility issue with a specific type of military GPS receiver used on at least 86 different US weapon systems, some of which cannot be used until the problem is fixed, according to the US Air Force. In current circumstances, approximately 8,000 to 10,000 …

India and Russia are planning for a joint venture to produce dual band GPS / GLONASS global positioning receivers for civilian and military use.
“We are actively working on a project to establish a joint venture on Indian territory to produce various navigation equipment. A group of our negotiators will head there for another round …