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IRNSS-1H navigation satellite launch unsuccessful

August 31, 2017 - By

The Aug. 31 launch of a new Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRNSS) satellite failed when the protective fairing did not separate. Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chairman AS Kiran Kumar confirmed that the mission to launch India’s eighth navigation satellite, IRNSS-1H, from the second launch pad at the spaceport of Satish Dhawan Space Centre, Sriharikota, was unsuccessful. The 1425-kg satellite was... read more

Per Enge appointed to Satelles board of directors

August 29, 2017 - By

Satelles, a secure time and location solutions company, has appointed Per Enge to its board of directors. Satelles provides a time and location solutions delivered over the Iridium constellation of 66 low-earth-orbiting satellites. Enge is the Vance and Arlene Coffman Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics for Stanford University, where he is also the director of the Stanford Center for Position Navigation... read more

TerraGo partners with Western Data Systems for data collection

August 29, 2017 - By

TerraGo partnered with Western Data Systems (WDS), a provider of field data collection solutions to the surveying, construction and other infrastructure industries. In alignment with the partnership, WDS will launch P.L.A.N.I.T. (Points, Lines, Areas, Navigation, Information, Tasks), a mobile data collection platform built entirely using TerraGo Magic. “WDS has the experience and expertise to give customers the smartest, most cost-effective... read more

University of Redlands details its GIS master’s program at Esri UC

August 29, 2017 - By

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fTSCnGNwgY Doug Flewelling, Ph.D., gives an overview of the University of Redland‘s master’s degree program for GIS at the 2017 Esri User Conference, which took place July 10-14 in San Diego, California. The program is specifically designed for is professionals in the field looking to further their careers, as well as international students. read more

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Can artificial intelligence fly a drone? Researchers are finding out

August 28, 2017 - By

Can artificial intelligence fly a drone? Can a drone catch thermals the way birds do? Microsoft researchers are partnering with the Nevada Governor’s Office of Economic Development (GOED) and the Nevada Institute for Autonomous Systems (NIAS) to find out. The artificially intelligent UAS being tested at the Nevada UAS Test Site is a 16 ½ -foot, 12 ½- pound sailplane.... read more

Telit releases category 11 LTE full mini PCIe card

August 28, 2017 - By

Telit has launched the LM940, a global Full PCI Express Mini Card (mPCIe) module for the router and gateway industry supporting LTE Advanced Category 11 (Cat 11) with speeds of up to 600 Mbps. The internet of things (IoT) module is available with various mobile network operator approvals in the fourth quarter of 2017, the company said. The module includes... read more

GLONASS-M satellite shipped to Cosmodrome for launch

August 28, 2017 - By

The Russian navigation satellite GLONASS-M 52 has traveled from ISS-Reshetnev Company’s facilities in Zheleznogorsk to the Plesetsk launch site, reported ISS-Reshnetev on Aug. 25. GLONASS-M 52 is one of the GLONASS system’s ground spares. It was built by ISS-Reshetnev Company more than two years ago and was stored at the company’s facilities waiting for launch. Before flying to the cosmodrome,... read more

Research Online: Robust tightly coupled GNSS/INS estimation for navigation

By Omar Garcia Crespillo, Daniel Medina, Anja Grosch, Jan Skaloud and Michael Meurer / Presented at the European Navigation Conference, Lausanne, Switzerland, May 2017 We designed a tightly-coupled integration between GNSS and inertial navigation systems (INS) where we modify the update step of a classical Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) to consider different robust estimators (such as M-estimators). We consider different... read more