Officials from the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced that the next two Galileo satellites will be launched on September 28, from the Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America. The spacecraft will be ferried to orbit aboard a Russian-built Soyuz delivery system.
Last year ESA finished constructing an... |
4 May 2012
04:57 GMT |
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The China National Space Administration (CNSA) announced some time ago that it plans to have a fully functional satellite navigation system installed in Earth's orbit by 2020, and it took an important step in this direction on Monday, April 30, when it launched two new navigation satellites.
The spacecraft too... |
3 May 2012
10:04 GMT |
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With the first two Galileo In-Orbit Verification (IOV) satellites already in orbit, the European Space Agency (ESA) is currently pondering whether or not the spacecraft could also be used to manage distress calls and other types of emergency.
Galileo is being developed primarily as a satellite navigation and global ... |
7 March 2012
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Officials with the European Space Agency are proud to announce that the ESA Kourou Spaceport, in French Guiana, South America, has just received the first of many satellites that will form the Galileo satellite navigation system.
Meant as a counterpart to the American-built Global Positioning System (GPS), Galileo... |
9 September 2011
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By using the browser Favorites menu or a common bookmark manager, the time consumed to navigate to a certain URL could be a lot for a big number of stored links. In order to simplify the Internet navigation process and to gain more time and an increased accessibility to navigate to certain websites, you can use visua... |
5 April 2008
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Sony Ericsson has joined the large number of mobile phone providers out there who seem to consider Wavefinder as the most efficient solution for off-board navigation. This has also been considered throughout times as the best solution for Symbian based mobile phones.Wavefinder will come with GPS accessory HGE-100 whi... |
22 June 2007
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The US GPS navigation market is pretty crowded with units coming from TomTom, Garmin and Navigon. That didn't stop Panasonic announce their first in-car GPS for the US though: the Strada CN-NVD905U. The Strada is actually an in-dash GPS unit that requires a double DIN slot for installation. The "in-dash" tag is ... |
9 May 2007
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TomTom officially announced their latest in-car GPS. Continuing the marketing trend, TomTom is trying to emphasize the device's "wide screen tag". This user-friendly GPS unit comes with TomTom's award-winning plug-and-go navigation software, a new 4.3-inch touchscreen that is backed up by 32 MB of Ram, Blu... |
17 April 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Hardware manufacturer Keomo is getting ready to ship in May its first navigation system (pictured) and also a solar-powered GPS receiver. Navi-tainment PND (Personal Navigation Device) is not only a GPS navigation unit but also a multimedia player. This "pseudo media player" can handle videos and eBooks as well as th... |
31 March 2007
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