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The GPS/GNSS newsletter by Navtech Seminars
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Editor-in-Chief:
Carolyn P. McDonald (send news items to cmcdonald@navtechgps.com)
Technical
Editor: Keith D. McDonald (satconsult@aol.com)
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& Design: Yelena Teterina (yteterina@navtechgps.com)
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ITEM 1) Raytheon
has been awarded a $7.6 million engineering and manufacturing
development contract to supply anti-jam Global Positioning
System (GPS) receivers to the Air Force's C-130 Avionics
Modernization Program (AMP).
ITEM 2)
Navtech course dates for 2004 have gone to press, so are final.
See complete listing below. The first course is at the
European Space Agency Feb. 2-6, 2004 and a few seats are
open.
ITEM 3)
SpaceDev gets contract for satellite system study
ITEM 4) Links to various aviation
industry newsletters
ITEM 5) Meetings calendar
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ITEM
1)
"EL SEGUNDO, Calif.,
January. 12, 2004. Raytheon has been awarded a $7.6 million
engineering and manufacturing development contract to supply
anti-jam Global Positioning System
(GPS) receivers to the Air Force's C-130 Avionics
Modernization Program (AMP). Boeing Integrated Defense Systems
selected the Raytheon Digital
Anti-jam Receiver (DAR) to provide C-130 aircraft
with robust and accurate navigation components.
Under a follow-on production
contract, 982 DAR systems at a cost of approximately
$37.3 million may be required.
Raytheon's Space and Airborne
Systems will adapt the DAR militarized GPS anti-jam
sensor, originally developed for high performance fighters such
as the F-35 Joint Strike
Fighter, to the Boeing C-130 AMP architecture. Each DAR
system will include a 24 channel Selective Availability
Anti-Spoofing Module (SAASM)
receiver, digital anti-jam electronics, and a multi-element
antenna.
"The DAR system gives the
C-130 the ultimate in military GPS technology," said
James Hvizd, avionics technology manager for Raytheon's
Precision Guidance Systems
business area. "By integrating a 24-channel GPS SAASM
receiver and adaptive beam-steering
anti-jam electronics into a single line replaceable
unit, the DAR system is fully compatible with the existing GPS
Antenna System-1 (GAS-1) antenna
electronics. The system includes provisions to
incorporate emerging Joint Precision Approach and Landing System
(JPALS) and GPS modernization
requirements. And, by leveraging the common core technology
from the JSF Anti-Jam GPS Sensor, the DAR system provides a
dramatic savings in production and
life cycle costs compared to legacy GPS receivers
and anti-jam electronics."
Raytheon Company's Space and
Airborne Systems (SAS) designs, develops and manufactures
advanced systems for precision engagement; missile defense; and
intelligence, surveillance and
reconnaissance. Headquartered in El Segundo, Calif.,
SAS has 11,000 employees and additional facilities in Goleta,
Calif.; Forest, Miss.; Dallas,
McKinney and Plano, Texas; and several international
locations. "
>From Military & Aerospace
Electronics free electronic newsletter January 20,
2004 http://mae.pennnet.com/articles/article_display.cfm?PUBLICATION_ID=32&
ARTICLE_ID=196093&pc=enl
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ITEM
2)
If we have your mailing address, your Navtech 2004 brochure
should have arrived at your
desk by now. If you wish to receive the paper brochure,
just email us your address (preferably your home address, since
3rd class bulk mail often is not
distributed on military bases and certain large
companies.) We only share your name with the Institute of
Navigation for their
September meeting, ION GNSS, listed in Item 5.)
Our 2004 public course
schedule is:
*** Feb. 2-6,
2004 *******************
ESA-ESTEC, Noordwijk, The
Netherlands (Be prepared for cold weather but a great
ESA facility and great hotels in Noordwijk by the sea)
Course
356: GPS Operation for Engineers and Technical Professionals
15 seats are available to
organizations outside ESA-ESTEC. Applications are being
accepted now, but the course is available to members of the EU
and NATO only. If you have
questions, please write us at
cmcdonald@navtechgps.com, or call +1 (703) 256-8900.
*** March
15-19, 2004 *******************
Doubletree Mission Valley
San Diego, California (Great weather, but occasional rain in
March)
and it's components known as...
***May 16,
2004 *******************
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
(Beautiful time of year)
Tutorial on Galileo prior to GNSS, details TBA
*** June 1,
2004 *******************
The Hyatt Long Beach, Long
Beach, California (Perfect weather)
Tutorial prior to ISCe (International Satellite &
Communications Expo)
*** June
14-18, 2004 *******************
The Sheraton Barcelo
Annapolis, Maryland (Washington DC area) (Lovely time of year)
and its components, known as....
*** September
20-21, 2004 *******************
The Hyatt Long Beach
Long Beach, California (Perfect weather)
Navtech's tutorials prior to ION
GNSS 2004 (same series as ION GPS/GNSS 2003 in
Portland, Oregon, just a revised name)
These tutorials (32 half days in
a 2-day period) will be announced by June 1,
2004. Prices will be the same as 2003. See www.navtechgps.com
under seminars for our 2003
series, for an idea of what we will be offering.
*** December
6-10, 2004 *******************
The Chateau Sonesta New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana (The best time of all to be in festive
New Orleans)
and its components, known as....
*** Franck Boynton of our Navtech
GPS Supply will be on hand in San Diego, Annapolis,
and New Orleans to demonstrate equipment. Call if you have
special requests.***
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ITEM
3)
"SpaceDev (Nasdaq OTC
trading symbol: SPDV) is happy to announce that we have
been awarded a contract valued at about $200,000 from DARPA.
SpaceDev will perform a
conceptual design study of a system to distribute hundreds of
small satellites into a
constellation configuration. This is very much in line
with our strong interest in designing and building
constellations of small
satellites for global broadband communications and for national
missile defense on a global scale.
SpaceDev has released a Lunar Lander
simulator game, in conjunction with game
producer, Beltminer, as part of our ongoing work in designing
missions and spacecraft for
the Moon and Mars. The newly released free game-like Lunar
Lander simulator is based on the idea that there are valuable
natural resources on the
Moon, on Near Earth Asteroids (NEAs), and on Mars that can
be commercially utilized to
stimulate and support the expansion of the human race
into space through commercial private sector ventures. The
simulator can be downloaded
free of charge from this location:
http://www.spacedev.com/newsite/templates/subpage3.php?pid=53&
subNav=11&subSel=2
During this new year, we hope to
continue building the solid technical foundation
of our own private space program, technology by technology.
SpaceDev designs and builds
innovative new space technologies via our project
contracts with both the private and government sectors. At the
current time, we are working on six
funded contracts: three with the Air Force
Research Lab (SpaceDev Streaker(tm) small launch vehicle, space
tug, nanosatellite
technology); one with the Missile Defense Agency (designing
three formation-flying microsats);
one with Scaled Composites (hybrid propulsion
technology for human space flight); and now the DARPA (Defense
Advanced Research Projects Agency)
project, as described above.........
About SpaceDev
Upon founding SpaceDev in 1997, Jim Benson started the trend of
successful computer
entrepreneurs moving into the space development arena. SpaceDev
(OTCBB: SPDV) creates and sells
affordable and innovative space products and solutions
to government and commercial enterprises. For more information,
visit www.spacedev.com
.
This newsletter may contain forward-looking statements
concerning the Company's
business and future prospects and other similar statements that
do not concern matters of
historical fact. Forward-looking statements relating to
product development, business prospects and development of a
commercial market for
technological advances are based on the Company's current
expectations. "
>From SpaceDev's electronic
public relations newsletter of January 21, 2004
(Navtech includes this public relations release as a matter of
interest concerning possible
future satellite systems and does not endorse any company's
sale of stock.)
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ITEM
4)
Military and Aerospace
Electronics Magazine's complete archives can be found at:
http://mae.pennnet.com/Search/index.cfm?Section=Archives
THIS JANUARY 04 ENTRY IS A NEW LISTING FOR GPSetc.COM
The European Space Agency
publishes a newsletter that called EGNOS NEWS, focusing
both on EGNOS and on satellite navigation issues.
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/egnos/estb/newsletter.htm
THIS JANUARY 04 ENTRY IS A NEW LISTING FOR GPSetc.COM
To learn about the world's most
relied upon GPS technical magazine, go to http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld
Newest issue is Dec. 22, 2003
For the authoritative Galileo
newsletter, go to:
http://www.genesis-office.org/galileo_newsletters/galileo_newsletters.html
(Latest issue is #26, November 2003)
For the archives of the Locus
Inc. newsletter on timing and Loran positioning,
go to: http://www.locusinc.com/loran_newsletter.html
For the January 2004 issue, check the archive link above after
about January 26.
For the electronic on-line
magazine for GPS professional users published by Matteo
Luccio, go to www.gpsuser.com
(the latest issue is Nov. 13, 2003)
For the newsletter published by
Professional Surveyor Magazine, Marc Cheeves,
Publisher, go to http://www.profsurv.com/newsArc.htm
(new issue came out October)
Continuously updated newsletter
by the US Coast Guard's Navigation Center "NAVCEN"
is at http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
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ITEM
5)
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January 26-28, 2004
ION National Technical Meeting 2004 (US Institute of Navigation)
Catamaran Hotel, San Diego, California
See www.ion.org
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Feb. 2-6, 2004
Noordwijk, The Netherlands
Navtech course at ESA ESTEC, see Item #2 above for details)
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March 15-19, 2004
Doubletree Mission Valley
Navtech courses in San Diego See Item #2 above for details)
______________________________________
March 28-31, 2004
Toronto Convention Centre
GeoTec Event Theme: "Pathways to Integration"
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May 16-19, 2004
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
GNSS 2004
Theme: "Merging Science and Applications"
(Navtech will be giving a half day tutorial on Sunday afternoon,
May 16, 2004, on Galileo.
Plans to be announced later.)
www.enc-gnss2004.com
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June 1, 2004
Navtech tutorial prior to ISCe (see details in #2 above)
______________________________________
June 7-9, 2004
ION 60th Annual Meeting
Co-Sponsored by Air Force Institute of Technology and CIGTF
Dayton Marriott Hotel
Dayton, Ohio ( see www.ion.org
)
______________________________________
June 14-18, 2004
Sheraton Barcelo
Navtech courses in Annapolis, Maryland (see Item #2 above for
details)
______________________________________
June 22-23, 2004
Munich, Germany
EURAN 2004
email schulze-thesing.dgon.bonn@t-online.de
for further information
Theme: "Integration of GPS, EGNOS, Galileo and LORAN-C/EUROFIX"
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September 21-24, 2004 (Preceded
by Navtech's tutorials at the Hyatt Long Beach
Sept. 20-21)
ION GNSS 2004
Long Beach Convention Center
Long Beach, California
(Formerly known as ION GPS, and
then ION GPS/GNSS, still presented
by the ION's Satellite Division)
www.ion.org
for both registration
and hotel reservations (but not until about
Jan. 1, 2004. (or www.GPSetc.com
to view Navtech's tutorials by
June 1, 2004. The 2003
schedule, which is similar, will be carried on our site
until replaced with the 2004 schedule.)
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December 3-5, 2004
The 36th Annual PTTI Meeting will be at the Hyatt Regency,
Washington, DC,
(The 37th Annual PTTI Meeting
will meet with the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium in August,
2005, in Vancouver, BC, Canada.)
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