Astrium’s AXIO-NET — German + Danish Cross Pollination
Precision satellite navigation is set to be used in the construction of a motorway and rail link between Germany and Denmark.
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Russia — Glonass Gets The Putin Push
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed introducing the Glonass navigation system throughout the country's regions and getting it onto "commercial rails."
Read MoreBoeing + U.S.A.F. — GPS IIF Busts Out And Is Delivered
Boeing [NYSE: BA], on February 11th, shipped the first Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellite from the company's satellite manufacturing facility in El Segundo to Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a Boeing-built C-17 Globemaster III airlifter.
Read MoreThales Alenia Space — Competes And Wins Galileo Contract! To Serve And Support Services
Thales Alenia Space shared the news with SatNews that they were awarded the contract to provide ESA Galileo system Support Services, lasting from 2010 through 2016.
Read MoreArianespace — Takes Home Galileo Launch Contract
Jean-Yves Le Gall, Chairman and CEO of Arianespace, and Ren? Oosterlinck, Director of the Galileo Program and Navigation-related Activities at the
Read MoreChina — Brother Sat For Beidou
China has successfully launched its third navigation satellite from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in south-western Sichuan province, part of a project to establish its own global satellite navigation system.
Read MoreU.S.A.F. — A Moving Satuation
GPS satellite SVN24 began moving into a new orbital slot today as scheduled.
Read MoreSpirent Communications — To Test Is To Prove Mobile Device Positioning Capabilities
Continuing on its path of innovation in LBS performance testing, Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a leader in wireless networks, devices and services testing solutions, has introduced the industry’s first solution to test Assisted GLONASS (A-GLONASS) capability on UMTS mobile devices and chipsets.
Read MoreGMV — GAGAN Me With A Raytheon Contract
GMV has been awarded a contract with Raytheon Company to develop a prototype algorithm for the detection of ionospheric depletions in the magnetic equatorial region that may be used in the user receiver data processing for the space-based augmentation system for the GAGAN program operated by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO).
Read MoreSES ASTRA — Payload Plethora For EGNOS
SES ASTRA, an SES company (Euronext Paris and Luxembourg Stock Exchange: SESG), has been awarded a second contract by the European Commission (EC) to provide hosted payload services for EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service.
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