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Sunday, January 30th, 2011
The 22nd satellite of Russia’s GLONASS global navigation satellite system has resumed functioning after routine maintenance. The Glonass-M satellite No. 714 was put back into operation at 8:30 a.m. on January 27, nine days later than planned, the...
Friday, January 28th, 2011
VERIPOS, has recently been awarded an exclusive five-year contract by POSH Semco of Singapore, one of Asia's foremost specialist offshore companies catering for different phases of oil and gas field development.
Friday, January 28th, 2011
VERIPOS has secured an extension to its contract with Gardline Geosurvey, for the provision of precise satellite positioning services. Under the general services agreement, VERIPOS will continue to supply its full range of GNSS positioning solutions to...
Monday, January 17th, 2011
India recently announced that it is going to have its very own Global Positioning System (GPS) by 2014. This was driven more by feelings that India was lagging too far behind China. While India’s $355 million Indian...
Wednesday, January 12th, 2011
Full-scale operations of Russia’s Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) are expected to start sometime in January–June, Russia’s Federal Space Agency Director Anatoly Perminov said, ITAR-TASS reported Tuesday. In early December 2010, Perminov said GLONASS was expected to...
Thursday, January 6th, 2011
Whether developing navigation algorithms, performing vendor selection, evaluating receiver variants or establishing the performance of a PND under real world conditions you will need a repeatable representative high quality GPS signal. And sometimes testing using real world...
Monday, January 3rd, 2011
aibei-Maction Technologies Inc. the largest GPS map developer in Greater China and Southeast Asia, recently claimed to have won orders from the Chinese automaker BYD Co., Ltd. Maction already supplies navigation software to South East (Fujian) Motor Co.,...
Thursday, December 30th, 2010
South Korean technology developers have produced a GPS navigation system that contains a mini projector, that can project its maps on to suitable surfaces. The Maptor is a hand-held device – around the same size as a conventional...
Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
ESA’s GIOVE-A satellite – the first prototype of Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system – is still working well after five years in space. The first ‘Galileo In-Orbit Validation Element’, GIOVE-A, was launched on 28 December 2005 by a...
Friday, December 17th, 2010
Last week three GLONASS satellites were launched from Baikonur, Russia and failed to achieve orbit. A quick review of the international media showed a wide variation in response. Some were downright negative, seeing the failure as the...
