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The GPS/GNSS newsletter by Navtech Seminars
& GPS Supply,
the GPS professional's resource since 1984. |
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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)
Production
& Design: Yelena Teterina (yteterina@navtechgps.com)
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Included
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(click on hyperlinks below to jump to news items)
1) Ansari
X-Prize SpaceShipOne Completes Mission!
2) DELTA II launched Space
Vehicle 2R-12 on June 23
3) Navtech Tutorials prior to ION
Sept. 20-21! Book that hotel room NOW :o)
4) Navtech's public courses through
January 2005(Note that the New Orleans courses are being moved
to 2005)
5) Links to various navigation
industry newsletters (see 2 new releases)
6) Meetings calendar: (see 2 new
listings)
7) See Navtech's book search engine
at www.navtechgps.com
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1) Ansari X-Prize SpaceShipOne
Completes Mission!
See
http://spaceflightnow.com/ss1/040621launch.html for a nice
story on this privately funded and developed mission that could
earn its creators the $10million prize if they accomplish a
repeat flight. Bert Rutan, who many of us heard speak at an ION
GPS meeting some years ago is the primary engineer behind the
mission, from what we can tell.
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2) DELTA II launched Space
Vehicle 2R-12 on June 23
GPS IIR-12 was launched from Cape
Canaveral yesterday at 6:54 p.m. EDT. The launch was dedicated
int the memory of the former President Ronald Reagan. A banner
on the side of hte rocket's umbilical tower said "Launch One For
'The Gipper' ".GPS IIR-12 (SVN60, PRN23) will move into Plane F,
slot 4 to replace SVN 32. A Delta-V maneuver will be performed
on 28 June to move SVN 32, allowing the new satellite to fill
the slot. The satellite should be operational within a month.
Rebecca Casswell
Chief, GPS Branch
+1 703 313 5930
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3) Navtech Tutorials prior to ION
Sept. 20-21! Book that hotel room NOW :o)
It's time to get your hotel room
for ION in Long Beach. Go to www.ion.org for hotel information
under ION GNSS 2004.
This is the world's largest GPS meeting, with the largest
exhibit. Be there for product announcements, leading edge
technical papers,
AND Navtech's famous OPEN MIC NIGHT co-sponsored this year by
Platinum sponsors Navtech, GPS Networking, Spirent, and Gold
Sponsors NavCom Technologies, GPSoft, NordNav, and GPS World!
This will be a great party with wonderful ION musicians. Get
your act ready!!!!! Thursday, September 23 at The Madision
Restaurant (very posh but WE will be very casual.) The food will
be fabulous and it's all free if you get a ticket at one of the
sponsor's booths.
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4) Navtech's public courses
through January 2005(Note that the New Orleans courses are being
moved to 2005)
*** September 20-21, 2004
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The Hyatt Long Beach
Long Beach, California (Perfect weather). Navtech's tutorials
prior to ION
GNSS 2004 These 32 HALF-DAY tutorials will be
posted on our website by June 1, 2004. If you need to make plans
now, see www.GPSetc.com
under seminars for our 2003
series, for an idea of what we will be offering.
*** December 6-10, 2004 *******************
THE NEW ORLEANS SEMINARS HAVE BEEN CHANGED TO JANUARY 10-14,
2005!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Chateau Sonesta Hotel
New Orleans, Louisiana
356: "GPS Operation for Engineers and Technical Professionals",
taught by
Mr. Keith McDonald and Dr. Chris Hegarty (January 10-14, 2005)
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem356.asp
and its components, known as....
111: "GPS Fundamentals", taught by Mr. Keith McDonald (January
10, 2005)
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem111.asp
122: "GPS Fundamentals and Enhancements",
taught by Mr. McDonald (January 10-11, 2005)
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem122.asp
217: "Introduction to Differential GPS",
taught by Dr. Chris Hegarty (January 12, 2005)
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem217.asp
356B: "Advanced GPS Operation for Engineers",
taught by Dr. Chris Hegarty
(January 12-14, 2005) (The first day, Wednesday, is the same as
217)
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem356.asp
521: "New Developments in Ambiguity
Resolution for GNSS Precise
Positioning", taught by Dr. Kees de Jong will be moved to a
later venue in 2005.
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem521.asp
331: "Weak Signal Tracking & High Sensitivity
GPS for Indoors", taught by
Dr. Gerard Lachapelle and Dr. Mark Petovello (January 10-12,
2005))
http://www.navtechgps.com/seminars/GPScourses/sem331.asp
*** EQUIPMENT DEMONSTRATIONS: Franck Boynton
of our Navtech GPS Supply will
be on hand in Annapolis and New Orleans to demonstrate
equipment. Call if you have special requests.***
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5) Links to various navigation
industry newsletters (see 2 new releases)
* The European Space Agency
publishes an EGNOS newsletter that is called EGNOS
NEWS, focusing both on EGNOS and on satellite navigation issues.
The latest issue became available for download May 25, as Issue
1/2004:
http://esamultimedia.esa.int/docs/egnos/estb/newsletter.htm
* To learn about the world's most relied upon GPS technical
magazine, GPS
World, go to
http://www.gpsworld.com/gpsworld
* For the authoritative Galileo newsletter, go to:
http://www.genesis-office.org/galileo_newsletters/galileo_newsletters.html
* For the archives of the Locus Inc. newsletter on LORAN
positioning and
timing, go to:
http://www.locusinc.com/loran_newsletter.html Their
May issue released May 24.
* 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
* Continuously updated newsletter by the US Coast Guard's
Navigation Center
"NAVCEN" is at
http://www.navcen.uscg.gov/
* Military and Space magazine's newsletter is found at:
http://mae.pennnet.com/Search/index.cfm?Section=Archives
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6) Meetings calendar: (see 2 new
listings)
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September 21-24, 2004
ION GNSS 2004
Preceded by Navtech's tutorials at the Hyatt Long
Beach Sept. 20-21)
www.navtechgps.com
(Formerly known as ION GPS, and then ION GPS/GNSS, still
presented by the
ION's Satellite Division) Long Beach Convention Center Long
Beach,
California www.ion.org
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October 25-27, 2004
The 33rd Annual Conference of the International Loran
Association
Tokyo, Japan
www.loran.org
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December 8-10, 2004
NAVITEC '2004 (2nd ESA Workshop on Satellite Navigation User
Equipment Technologies) at ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands.
For call for papers and abstract submission go to:
http://www.estec.esa.nl/conferences/ or
http://www.congrex.nl/04c09/
The abstract deadline is 18 June 2004 !!!!!.
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December 7-9, 2004
The 36th Annual PTTI Meeting
Hyatt Regency, Washington, DC
Contact Sheila Faulkner at:
bopenyan@aol.com
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6-8 December, 2004
2004 International Symposium on GPS/GNSS
Sydney, Australia
http://www.gnss2004.org
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August, 2005
The 37th Annual PTTI Meeting
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Will meet with the IEEE Frequency Control Symposium.
Contact Sheila Faulkner at:
bopenyan@aol.com
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7) See Navtech's book search
engine at www.navtechgps.com
You
can now find GPS books you need from our site through our
great new search engine! Books are listed by:
Our
part #
ISBN
numbers
Title
Author
Publisher
Navtech's
book category
Give
it a try! AUTHORS, PLEASE CHECK OUT YOUR OWN WORKS AND
LET US KNOW OF CHANGES YOU'D LIKE.
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Carolyn McDonald, Editor
cmcdonald@navtechgps.com
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