Jean-Yves Le Gall, chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Didier Faivre, director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the European Space Agency (ESA), signed an agreement February 2 in London to launch satellites in Europe’s Galileo satellite positioning system by Ariane 5...More>>

The Institute of Navigation (ION) announced the recipients of the 2012 fellow memberships during the ION International Technical Meeting (ITM) 2012 in Newport Beach, California, January 30-February 1. Election to Fellow membership recognizes the distinguished contributions of The Institute of...More>>

Navcen has issued a correction to its announcement that accompanied NANU 2012003 on SVN-49, which was issued on January 30. "In an effort to improve constellation sustainment, on or about 01FEB2012, SVN-49 will resume transmitting an L-band signal using PRN-24 as a test asset. Upon completion of...More>>

Article By: Alan Cameron

Last week’s Supreme Court ruling on GPS use for tracking criminal suspects makes U.S. law clear on this issue going forward, but it does not address tracking for commercial aspects. One U.S. newspaper editorialized, “the unanimous decision failed to resolve troubling questions about the privacy...More>>

Article By: Alan Cameron

Free downloadable software Toolkits at www.egnos-portal.eu can help cell-phone and handheld receiver developers enhance location and timing applications with GPS corrrection data from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite-based augmentation system. The Toolkits...More>>

Article By: Alan Cameron

Free downloadable software Toolkits at www.egnos-portal.eu can help cell-phone and handheld receiver developers enhance location and timing applications with GPS corrrection data from the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) satellite-based augmentation system. The Toolkits...More>>

Russian mobile company MTS has launched a GLONASS smartphone, called MTS Glonass 945, which the company states is the first mobile handset supporting GLONASS as well as GPS.More>>