Thursday, May 22nd, 2014
Russia plans to sign an agreement with China this year to place ground stations of global navigation satellite system GLONASS in China and to deploy Chinese navigation satellite stations Beidou in Russia, deputy head of the Federal...
Monday, May 19th, 2014
Telenav (NASDAQ: TNAV), the leader in personalized navigation, announced today that its free U.S. Scout for iPhone app will use the crowd-sourced and free OpenStreetMap (OSM) for all map data. OSM, the “Wikipedia...
Wednesday, April 23rd, 2014
Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed to establish a common navigation space, a Russian high official said at the Navitech-2014 forum on April 23. "The creation of common navigation space between Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus is among our...
Monday, April 21st, 2014
Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) is expected to become operational in less than a year from now. On 4th April 2014, Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) has successfully launched the second satellite of this system, the...
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Abstracts are now being accepted for the Institute of Navigation’s (ION) Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI) Meeting. The meeting will take place December 1-4, 2014 (Tutorials December 1) at the Seaport Boston Hotel, Boston, Massachusetts. The...
Wednesday, April 16th, 2014
Nine Russian navigation satellites had gone out of service for the second time in this month, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday. According to Roscosmos, between 01:00 and 01:30 Moscow time (2100 - 2130 GMT), eight...
Friday, April 11th, 2014
Mapping and navigation firm AutoNavi has agreed to a $1.5 billion acquisition by China's largest e-commerce company, Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. Alibaba will pay $5.25 a share to AutoNavi stockholders, or $21 per American depositary share. That...
Monday, April 7th, 2014
India on Friday got a step closer to establishing indigenous alternative to United States-owned global positioning system or GPS by launching the second of the seven navigation satellites. Called the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System-1B, the payload...
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
Russian lawmakers have endorsed draft legislation to allow the country to set up a satellite navigation monitoring system in Nicaragua, a Cabinet committee said Tuesday. Under the agreement, Russia would set up a network of land-based control...
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2014
India is expected to have its own satellite navigation system by the first quarter of 2015 with four of its satellites in space, said an official of Indian space agency. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) will...
