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New GPS Receivers from Joint Venture

admin — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 09:13:23 +0000

India and Russia are planning for a joint venture to produce dual band GPS / GLONASS global positioning receivers for civilian and military use. GPS receivers are used for land and marine navigation throughout the world.

“We are actively working on a project to establish a joint venture on Indian territory to produce various navigation equipment. In March a group of our negotiators will head there for another round of talks,” CEO of Navigation and Information Systems (NIS) Alexander Gurko said.

GLONASS (Global Navigation Satellite System) is the Russian equivalent of the US controlled GPS.

Earlier, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin had said he would discuss cooperation in the GLONASS project with Indian leaders.

Russia is the leader in precision homing equipment that is a part of the military segment of its GLONASS. And, India has become the first country to ink a deal with Russia to get the access of the GLONASS.

At present, Russia operates a total of 22 GLONASS satellites in orbit and it expects to put about 24 satellites to provide navigation services worldwide.

GPS Phones

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:06:07 +0000

Garmin Ltd, the nation’s leading maker of satellite-powered navigational devices is getting into the wireless phone business with a handset that incorporates GPS.

“This is the breakthrough product that cell phone and GPS users around the world have been longing for — a single device that does it all,” said Cliff Pemble, the company’s president and chief operating officer.

“We believe the Nuvifone will change the way people view converged devices in the future.”

Garmin, which is based in the Cayman Islands and has operational headquarters in suburban Kansas City, has long been a leader in the market for global positioning satellite technology.

New data from Telematics Research Group indicates that navigation-equipped phones will outsell navigational devices by next year.

Garmin is entering a market crowded with experienced players like Samsung, Motorola, Apple and Nokia — which is in the process of acquiring the company that provides Garmin’s digital maps, NavTeq.

Garmin and its chief rival, Netherlands-based TomTom, have been rumored for months to be working on cell phones. Mio Technology, another GPS company, said this week it was developing its own phone with chipmaker Qualcomm.

The Nuvifone, whose price has not been announced, will have a camera, wireless Internet surfing platform, MP3 player and 3.5-inch touch-screen display and give voice-prompted, turn-by-turn directions.

China Launches Global Positioning Satellite

admin — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 06:02:23 +0000

BEIJING: China launched the fifth satellite in its ambitious “Compass” global satellite positioning system on Saturday, the latest effort in the nation’s fast developing space programme, state media reported.

The “Beidou” or “Big Dipper” satellite was launched from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in southwest China’s Sichuan province at 4:11 am (2011 GMT on Friday), and accurately entered its planned orbit, Xinhua news agency said.

The satellite was the fifth such vehicle put into space as part of China’s indigenous global satellite positioning system, the report said.

The system would provide “navigation and positioning services in transportation, meteorology, petroleum prospecting, forest fire monitoring, disaster forecast, telecommunications and public security among others,” it said.

It was expected to be operational for clients in China and Asia by 2008 and according to current plans would be expanded into a worldwide global positioning system in the future, it said.

The complete “Compass” navigation system would include a total of five geostationary earth orbit satellites and 30 medium earth orbit satellites, previous reports said.

Xinhua did not say when the entire system was set to be completed.

It was also not clear how the Chinese system would rival the US global positioning satellite system or the European Union’s Galileo satellite navigational system which is expected to be built with Chinese participation.

Saturday’s launch was the 97th successful flight of China’s Long March series carrier rocket, the work horse of the nation’s space programme and a key component of its ballistic missile arsenal.