Published by Inside GNSS in cooperation with The Institute of Navigation ION GNSS+2015 | SHOW DAILY THURSDAY EDITION – SEPTEMBER 17, 2015 From the editors of GNSS Systems Status Panel A Galileo/BeiDou Focus on 2020 CHECK IT OUT Dee Ann Divis Customize Your Schedule ased on comments from speakers in a Wednesday The Galileo program will switch to launching at the ION GNSS+ Mobile Conference Site Bpanel discussion, 2020 looks to be a banner year satellites four at a time on a modified Ariane 5 rocket Once you are registered for for satellite navigation with both the Europeans and beginning next year, finishing the current set of satel- the conference, visit the ION website to build a customized the Chinese racing to complete their constellations by lites in 2018 with a Soyuz launch carrying the last two schedule of conference papers the end of this decade. spacecraft, said Eric Chatre of the European Space you wish to attend. Access Agency (ESA). the GNSS program and other conference information on The program is fully funded through 2020 your mobile device. Visit and the program office is in the process of the ION GNSS+ Mobile site <m.ion.org> for details. negotiating a contract to build the final round Self-Service of satellites. Daniel Blonski, Galileo system Business Area performance engineer for ESA, told the Show The use of computers, a printer, and a copier is being Daily that the ground system would also be provided on a self-service completed in 2020. basis in the ION registration lobby. Internet access is The Chinese are aiming to finish their not available on these constellation by 2020, said Jun Shen, deputy computers. For Internet director of the International Cooperation access, please use the computers in the Internet Center of the China Satellite Navigation Access Center, sponsored Status of GNSS Systems panel: (back row) Daniel Blonski, Yoshiyuki Office. When complete the constellation will by NovAtel, Inside GNSS, Murai, Dr. Jose Angel Avila Rodriguez, Dr. Sergey Karutin. (front row) GNSS Systems Status continued on page 6 and Lockheed Martin. Please Col. Steven Whitney, Eric Chatre, Dr. John Betz, Dr. Jun Shen. limit your time when others are waiting. Exhibitor Demonstrations Thursday, September 17 Military GPS User Equipment Room 17 11:00 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. Rohde & Schwarz Development Risks May “Technology and Visualization of Hybrid Location Based Services Slow MGUE Program using GNSS/OTDOA/ECID” Dee Ann Divis 2:00 p.m. - 2:45 p.m. Spirent Federal Systems “Interference and Anti-jam he Air Force may dial back plans to accelerate its military Antenna Testing Using the receiver program, possibly reversing an earlier decision to Spirent Wavefront Simulator T (GSS9790)” combine development and production steps as a way to meet a Conference Proceedings congressional procurement deadline. Official conference The Military GPS User Equipment (MGUE) program is de- proceedings are scheduled for distribution in November veloping next-generation GPS receiver cards that can be swapped to all eligible conference out, one-for-one, for the current receivers in a wide variety of participants. existing military equipment. The new receivers will be able to tap Re-charge Your Media Devices the more powerful M-code signal, which is not only more secure Is your battery running low? and flexible but spectrally separated from the L1 and L2 civil Relax and recharge your signals — a distinct advantage in a jamming environment. hand-held devices at the ION Dr. James L. Green, Keynote Speaker Charging Station located MGUE Program continued on page 4 in booths 611 & 613 in the exhibit hall. ION GNSS+ 2015 | 1 Published by Inside GNSS in cooperation with the Institute of Navigation ION GNSS+2015 | SHOW DAILY New Products & Company GNSS reference stations to upgrade and expand the continuous GNSS reference News @ ION GNSS+ station networks operated by UNAVCO. UNAVCO is a nonprofit university-gov- NovAtel Showcases Autonomous ComNav Announces erned consortium that facilitates geosciences Systems in Velocity Magazine CORS-Oriented Product research and education using geodesy. The latest issue of Velocity magazine from ComNav Technology (Booth #116) has NovAtel (Island Booth F) is available at released its M300 Pro GNSS receiver, Inside GNSS: Unmanned the company’s designed primarily for continuously operat- Systems Webinar booth on the ing reference station (CORS) projects. It Inside GNSS (Booth 212) will present ION GNSS+ has a built-in lithium battery, web server another installment of its web seminar exhibition floor. service for remote operation, and reserved series on September 29, entitled "Cutting A digital version ports for connecting with complementary Edge Applications of Unmanned Systems." can also be sensors, such as barographs, inclinometers, Sponsored by NovAtel, the webinar features viewed online and meteorological sensors. The M300 Pro Steven Waslander, a professor in the Depart- at <http:// can track GPS, GLONASS, BeiDou (B1, ment of Mechanical and Mechatronics velocitymaga- B2, B3 signals), with capability reserved for Engineering at the University of Waterloo, zine.epubxp. Galileo, QZSS, and other emerging constel- Ontario, Canada, and Ian MacRae, a profes- com/t/71478>. lations. 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Dr.Terry Moore, Sandra Kennedy, Dr. Olivier Julien, Dr. Paul Mc Burney. 2 | ION GNSS+ 2015 Published by Inside GNSS in cooperation with the Institute of Navigation ION GNSS+2015 | with a demonstration of its real-time capa- the ITAR-free GPS/Galileo G-SPHERE-S bilities. Using SatGen simulation software, it receiver for use on board micro-satellites with is now possible to output a scenario directly in-flight uploading firmware, very low power from the software into a specially modified consumption and a qualified COTS design. LabSat 2, which in turn then replays the data into the device under test with only a SYNTONY GNSS S.A.S. Acquires one second latency. The output signal can be SILICOM LABS, Offers GNSS Solutions precisely synchronized with the current time SYNTONY GNSS (Booth 512) has November 3 – 6, 2015 or it can have a past or future timestamp. acquired SILICOM LABS (subsidiary of Mission Critical Visitors to the booth will also be able to dis- GNSS Silicom Group) and is offering high- cuss the forthcoming LabSat Wideband, the end GNSS solutions, aerospace embedded GNSS Training next generation of LabSat that will provide receivers, hardware‐in‐the‐loop constellation for Professionals new capabilities to use the full spectrum of simulators, and high-fidelity GNSS signal Washington, D.C. Area GNSS signals. recorders/replayers. 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Various commercial off-the- Information on the status, plans and tactical-grade IMUs/GPS. Geomatics shelf GPS jammers were used, modified to capabilities of GPS and other GNSS are USA has engineered a line of affordable jam only in the permitted band at power also included. and transportable surveying, mapping levels ranging from a few milliwatts up Prerequisites: Familiarity with and georeferencing