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Russia eyes building Glonass stations in 36 countries
Apr 25, 2014 (XNA)
Russia plans to build 50 stations for the global navigation satellite system Glonass in dozens of countries, a senior official said Wednesday. "We will continue...
Russia's GLONASS Fully Restored After System Failure
Apr 25, 2014 (RIA Novosti)
Russia's Global Navigation Satellite System (GLONASS) has resumed normal operations after suffering an outage earlier this month caused by a malfunctioning sate...
World's First Satellite Communicator with Built-In Navigation
Apr 19, 2014 (SPX)
DeLorme has announced the upcoming launch of its newest product, inReach Explorer, incorporating a new range of navigation functions. The latest generation of i...
Russia's Glonass system fails second time in April
Apr 19, 2014 (XNA)
Nine Russian navigation satellites had gone out of service for the second time in this month, the Federal Space Agency Roscosmos said Tuesday. According to Rosc...
Facebook rolls out 'nearby friends' feature
Apr 17, 2014 (AFP)
Facebook on Thursday began rolling out a feature allowing users of its mobile app to use smartphone location to discover friends near them. The optional "nearby...
Fifth Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Joins Global Positioning System
Apr 09, 2014 (SPX)
The accuracy of the Global Positioning System (GPS) has been improved with the recent handover of a fifth Boeing GPS IIF satellite to the U.S. Air Force. The ne...
Satellite Navigation Failure Confirms Urgent Need for Backup
Apr 08, 2014 (SPX)
The world's global positioning industry watched in disbelief on April 2, 2014, as all of the 24 GLONASS satellites that make up Russia's equivalent of the GPS s...
Indian navigation satellite soars into orbit, step closer to own GPS-like system
Apr 06, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
The Indian Space Research Organization successfully launched its IRNSS-1B navigation satellite into space - the second of seven satellites which are bringing In...
PSLV-C24 Launches India's Second Dedicated Navigation Satellite IRNSS-1B
Apr 06, 2014 (SPX)
ISRO's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle, PSLV-C24 has successfully launched IRNSS-1B, the second satellite in the Indian Regional Navigation Satellite System (IRN...
USAF Awards Lockheed Martin Full Production Contracts For Next Two GPS 3 Satellites
Apr 03, 2014 (SPX)
The U.S. Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin more than $245 million in contract options to complete production of its seventh and eighth next-generation Global Po...
India to have own satellite navigation system by 2015
Apr 02, 2014 (IANS)
India is expected to have its own satellite navigation system by the first quarter of 2015 with four of its satellites in space, said an official of Indian spac...
FAA Approves DeLorme Communicator For Service In Alaska
Mar 31, 2014 (SPX)
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Alaska Flight Services has announced that the DeLorme inReach satellite communicator has been approved for the Enhance...
LockMart Taps General Dynamics For Network Element On GPS 3 Birds
Mar 25, 2014 (SPX)
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was recently awarded a $26 million contract from Lockheed Martin to support the U.S. Air Force Global Positioning ...
First GLONASS satellite in 2014 put in orbit
Mar 25, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
A navigation GLONASS-M satellite launched with the aid of a Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket from the Plesetsk space base in the small hours of Monday has been put in ...
Exelis completes transmitter assemblies for first GPS III satellite payload
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
Exelis has completed and fully tested six transmitter assemblies, which are integral payload components for the first in a series of the next generation of GPS ...
New Airborne GPS Technology for Weather Conditions Takes Flight
Mar 19, 2014 (SPX)
GPS technology has broadly advanced science and society's ability to pinpoint precise information, from driving directions to tracking ground motions during ear...
Astro Aerospace Delivers Antennas For Next-Gen GPS III Satellites 3 through 6
Mar 18, 2014 (SPX)
Continuing its support for the U.S. Air Force's Global Positioning System (GPS), Northrop Grumman has delivered 32 self-deploying, monopole JIB antennas for the...
ESA to certify first Galileo position fixes worldwide
Mar 16, 2014 (ESA)
To mark the first anniversary of Galileo's historic first satnav positioning measurement, ESA plans to award certificates to groups who picked up signals from t...
Russia plans to launch new Glonass satellite on March 24
Mar 11, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia is planning to launch another Glonass-M navigation satellite into orbit on March 24, the Defense Ministry said Wednesday. Glonass is Russia's answer to t...
McMurdo Announces Global Availability of Maritime Fleet Management Software
Mar 03, 2014 (SPX)
McMurdo Group has announced that its fleet management software platform is now available worldwide for partners to integrate into their existing maritime applic...
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