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Precision and accuracy are among the benefits the local agricultural industry could see from the latest Global Navigation Satellite System ground station upgrades.
Bundaberg is one of the first in Queensland to receive the upgrades and benefit from more reliable and accessible positioning technology.
Speaking in a Greensill Farming shed today, federal Member for Hinkler and Minister for Resources, Water and Northern Australia Keith Pitt said the improvements would help increase productivity and open up new economic opportunities.
“GNSS ground station data from stations like the one in Bundaberg make it possible to get reliable and precise positioning down from around 10m to just 3cm accuracy in areas of mobile phone coverage,” Mr Pitt said.
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The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is set to go online in five years and will feature a Public Regulated Service (PRS) to be used by government agencies, armed forces and emergency services. But the EU decided this crucial feature would not be accessible to the UK after Brexit, despite London playing an imperative part in its development. It is not the first time the UK and EU have squabbled over PRS - and, according to the Associate Director of the Atlantic Council, it almost stopped the UK signing up in the first place.
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EPFL moves boldly into space with its CHESS satellites
The EPFL Spacecraft Team has set itself the ambitious goal of launching two satellites by 2023. With this bold initiative, this student team hopes to gain further insight into the chemical composition of the outermost layers of our atmosphere.
One out of two CHESS satellites
Designing a satellite and launching it into space is no run-of-the-mill project. Rather, it’s one that forever marks the early careers of the students who take part – just ask the EPFL students who designed the SwissCube, a 1U CubeSat (a small standardized unit measuring 10 cm x 10 cm) launched in 2009. Today, a new group of students, the EPFL Spacecraft Team, is taking on a new challenge. With the support of the EPFL Space Center (eSpace), they are developing a constellation of two satellites, called CHESS, that will be launched in two years. The team is currently seeking additional members and sponsors.
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Swift Navigation, a San Francisco-based tech firm redefining GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and precise positioning technology for autonomous vehicles, automotive, mobile and mass-market applications, today announced a new executive hire to support its rapidly expanding business. Robert Seltzer has joined the Swift executive team as Executive Vice President of Product. In his new role, Mr. Seltzer will be responsible for product strategy and roadmap and will lead the product team, enabling Swift to build solutions, products and services for today’s evolving GNSS and precise positioning markets.
Mr. Seltzer is an established industry veteran with 25 years of leadership experience where he transformed, led and developed product, marketing, sales, software engineering and business development teams. For the past 22 years, Mr. Seltzer has been a leader at Intel Corporation, most recently as Vice President, Platform Solutions and Computing, where he led