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AgJunction to Acquire Novariant

March 20, 2015 - By

Precision-agriculture company AgJunction has agreed to acquire precision-steering company Novariant, according to a joint press release. AgJunction holds numerous patents and markets its products and services under the brand names Outback Guidance, Satloc and AgJunction Cloud Services. AgJunction supports advanced farming practices and enables seamless data connectivity among growers and their agricultural service providers. Headquartered in Hiawatha, Kansas, AgJunction has facilities... read more

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BeiDou Launch May Take Place This Month

March 19, 2015 - By

News courtesy of the CANSPACE Listserv.   The first satellite in the BeiDou Phase 3 expansion could be launched by the end of March. Apparently, a BeiDou satellite has been shipped to the Xichang launch site, and tracking ships have left port for the open ocean. Also, a philatelic first-day cover for the launch (a common Chinese practice) has been issued with... read more

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CNAV Performance ‘Matches or Slightly Outperforms’ Legacy Signals

March 19, 2015 - By

A quarterly meeting of the U.S. GPS Program’s interagency Civil Navigation Signals (CNAV) Tiger Team on March 5 focused on the new L2C and L5 GPS civil signals. “CNAV Message Types 10, 11, 30 and 33 are currently transmitted on seven GPS IIR-M (L2C) and eight GPS IIF satellites (L2C and L5),” wrote Rick Hamilton, CGSIC Executive Secretariat, USCG Navigation Center, in a status email to the Civil Global Positioning System Service... read more

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Fugro Offers High-Accuracy Offshore Positioning Service

March 19, 2015 - By

Fugro has introduced its high-accuracy G2+ service, designed to benefit offshore operators around the globe who require positioning and measurement accuracy at centimeter level. G2+ is an enhancement of Fugro’s G2 service (based on GPS and GLONASS). The service uses highly advanced GNSS augmentation algorithms developed in house. The code and carrier-phase signals transmitted by GPS and GLONASS satellites are monitored... read more

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Galileo at Your Service

March 19, 2015 - By and

On the eve of the Galileo 7 and 8 launch, the European Space Agency has created a short video to explain the value of the satellite constellation to its citizens. With the Galileo System, Europe will provide a full range of services and applications across many different areas for Europe and beyond. read more

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FAA Warns Drone Hobbyist and YouTuber

March 19, 2015 - By

So, you know it’s illegal to fly drones in the United States for commercial purposes unless you have a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) exemption and Certificate of Authorization and Waiver (CoA), right? That means you can’t fly drones if it’s related to business, no matter if you charge a fee or not. But, you can fly drones in the United... read more

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DigitalGlobe Makes Available 30-cm Satellite Imagery to Customers

March 19, 2015 - By

DigitalGlobe is making available its 30-cm satellite imagery products. Access to the high-resolution commercial satellite imagery captured by DigitalGlobe’s WorldView-3 satellite will improve decision making, enable more efficient operations, and enhance a variety of applications for customers in the civil government, defense and intelligence, energy, mining and global development sectors. In addition, many customers who previously relied on aerial imagery can... read more

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Rockwell to Provide Secure GPS Receivers for Harris Tactical Radios

March 18, 2015 - By

Rockwell Collins has signed a contract to provide its MicroGRAM GPS receivers for Harris Corporation’s tactical radios, bringing secure, jam-resistant GPS capability to products such as the Falcon III AN/PRC-158 and AN/PRC-117G. The contract, which represents the largest annual purchase of MicroGRAM, calls for Rockwell Collins to provide 5,000 GPS receivers to Harris over the next three years. Deliveries began... read more

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