GPS World articles from January 2003

GPS World archives from January 2003

Roll on, GPS. (The View From Here).(Column)
January 1, 2003... Where does GPS really come from? Where is it going? Well, try this: imagine yourself deep in the Blue Mountains of northeastern Oregon along the course of the South Fork of the Walla Walla River. After you've followed the steadily...

A New Year's GPS budget resolutions. (Washington View).
January 1, 2003... The New Year is usually a time for forward-looking resolutions and fresh lists of things to be done. In the case of the GPS, however, it's more a list of unfinished budgets. In the United States the recent high-stakes election and the huge...

Europe pushes Galileo work while waiting for ESA shares deal. (Global View).
January 1, 2003... The European Commission (EC) and European Space Agency (ESA) are continuing to work around a prolonged impasse between Germany and Italy over shares in the Galileo program that has delayed work on the $3.3 billion system. As this issue of GPS...

GPS, Glonass set launch dates. (Global View).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Launch of the next GPS satellite, a Block IIR generation spacecraft delayed for several months by a variety of technical and weather-related problems, is scheduled for January 29, 2003. The Russian Federation's Ministry of Defence has also...

JPO receives equipment $$. (Global View).(Navstar GPS Joint Program Office)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Fiscal Year 2003 (FY03) defense appropriations budget signed by President Bush includes $106 million for GPS user equipment acquisition by the Navstar GPS Joint Program Office. Current plans call for an increase to $149.9 million in FY04...

The hunt for RFI: unjamming a Coast Harbor. (System Challenge).
January 1, 2003... "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a giant hound!" Engineers-turned-sleuths in Moss Landing Harbor, California, had a similar clue to go on: the tracks of a GPS jammer across a spectrum analyzer. For months, the elusive culprit had...

Directions 2003.(Industry Overview)
January 1, 2003... We received such an enthusiastic response to our Directions 2003 invitation, in which we asked GPS World editorial advisors and other thought leaders to gaze into the future of global navigation satellite systems, that the December issue could...

GPS World Receiver Survey.(Buyers Guide)
January 1, 2003... Now in its 11th year, the annual GPS World Receiver Survey provides the longest-running and most complete reference to GPS equipment available in one place. With information provided by more than 70 manufacturers on more than 500...

GPS World Company Directory.
January 1, 2003... Allen Osborne Associates, Inc. 756 Lakefield Road, Westlake Village, CA 91361 Phone: (805) 495-8420 Fax: (805) 373-6067 aoa@aoa-gps.com www.aoa-gps.com Analog Devices, Inc. One Technology Way POB 9106,...

Jamming GPS: susceptibility of some civil GPS receivers. (Innovation).
January 1, 2003... How susceptible are Standard Positioning Service GPS receivers to different kinds of jamming? The U.S. Department of Defense will use in-theatre jamming of the L1 signal to deny its adversaries the use of GPS. While jamming OPS signals has...

Leica on ice: monitoring plates, sheets. (GPS Inside).(researchers from West Antarctic GPS Network project using Leica Geosystems RS500 receivers)
January 1, 2003... This month, researchers from Texas, Tennessee, and Hawaii are climbing onto remote rocks surrounded by ice, often in -30 degree C conditions, to install survey monuments and occupy them with Leica Geosystems RS500 receivers for periods ranging...

Qualcomm's radio receiver. (Launches).(RGR6200)(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Qualcomm Incorporated introduced a new integrated RGR6200 GPS radio receiver, designed to interface with the company's MGP6200 multimode GPS processor and MSM6200 mobile station modem (MSM) chipsets. Together, the chips enable simultaneous GPS...

Trimble SPAWAR, Ag, wireless too. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Trimble will provide the U.S. Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SPAWAR) with its Force-5 GPS Receiver Application Module (GRAM-S) and SAASM-based Force 5 GRASM-S dual-frequency receivers. The Naval Oceanographic Office (NAVOCEANO)...

SiRF inks Motorola, AMD accords. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Phoenix, Arizona-based Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS) will integrate the SiRFstarII GPS baseband and radio frequency integrated chip (RFIC) core technology with Motorola wireless baseband and applications processors to...

CMC Electronics. (Industry Bytes).
January 1, 2003... Transport Canada Civil Aviation approved the 24-channel Global Navigation System Sensor Approach (GNSSA) module from CMC Electronics, a step on the way to certification for TSO-C145 (wide area) and TSO (local area) augmentation systems (WAAS...

NovAtel Inc. (Industry Bytes).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... NovAtel Inc. shipped additional WAAS receivers worth US $2.4 million for use in the Chinese Satellite Navigation Augmentation System (SNAS), in Phase 2 of the program. It includes upgrades to mini-WAAS receivers delivered in 2000, as part of...

Harris gets IIF Boeing LADO. (Deals).( Launch Anomaly Disposal Operations (LADO) )(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... Harris Corporation of Melbourne, Florida, won a two-year, $16 million contract to support development and integration of Launch Anomaly Disposal Operations (LADO) in The Boeing Company's GPS IIF satellite program. A telemetry command and...

Northstar Rambles on to Brunswick. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... CMC Electronics of Montreal, Canada, sold its Massachusetts-based Northstar Technologies subisidiary to Brunswick Corporation of Lake Forest, Illinois. Northstar supplies GPS-enabled marine navigational systems. CMC acquired the company in...

Embry-Riddle to research safety. (Deals).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... A consortium led by Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University of Daytona Beach, Florida, received a $20 million contract from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for research into air traffic control, free flight, avionics, and other topics to...

ALK Technologies, Inc. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... ALK Technologies, Inc. of Princeton, New Jersey, appointed Garrett Dreier as chief executive officer and Edward Siciliano as vice president, sales and marketing. Dreier came from a position as president and CEO of Starbak Communications, and...

Aerospace Corporation. (People).(Brief Article)
January 1, 2003... The Aerospace Corporation, an independent non-profit company based in El Segundo, California, gave William A. Feess its highest recognition, the Trustees' Distinguished Achievent Award, for his work on the GPS satellite constellation. Feess was...

Calendar 2003.
January 1, 2003... JANUARY 22-24, 2003 ION National Technical Meeting Anaheim, California. Topics include receiver and antenna technology, algorithms and methods, augmentatio systems, space applications, and others. Contact ION National Office, (703)...