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>>

European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani announced in London that the consortium led by OHB System AG and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL) will build a further eight satellites for the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigation program under the supervision of the European...More>>

On the same day that a LightSquared VP told an Institute of Navigation audience that moving to a different spectrum posed extremely formidable difficulties, a company working on behalf of LightSquared contacted a Department of Defense official to discuss just such a spectrum swap. More>>

The Czech government signed an agrement for Prague to host the headquarters of an ambitious satellite navigation system that is expected to rival the U.S. Global Positioning System.More>>

GPS satellite SVN-49 will begin transmitting an L-band signal on Wednesday, February 1, reports Rick Hamilton, executive secretariat of the Civil Global Positioning System Service Interface Committee (CGSIC). The transmission is part of a "quest to explore options to bringing SVN-49 back to...More>>

“We invite comment on LightSquared’s petition, and establish a pleading cycle.” Thus spake the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), groping for a way forward in the ongoing LightSquared/GPS conflict. The FCC has opened an Internet docket for public comment on the LightSquared position...More>>

"Many people confuse two issues regarding GPS and LightSquared," writes Javad Ashjaee in a new post on his company's website. "There are lots of confusions, wrong conclusions, and misleading reports in the media. They are results of mixing questions 1 and 2. People test old receivers (Question 1)...More>>

A story that appeared last week on a Russian news website, "Russia's GPS rival to survive on private investments" apparently consists of journalistic exaggeration. The story claimed that government funding would be cut off, but official sources say that's not true, that it is merely a question of...More>>