NEW LOW COST GPS+GLONASS COMBO MODULES INTRODUCED TO A WAITING MARKET

(August 23, 2011) GlonassCentral today has introduced it’s low cost GPS+ Glonass modules to the market today. These modules are based on technological breakthroughs that have contributed to driving down the price of the technology for mass applications. With 3 different key sizes, the performance is on par or better with similar Glonass chips in the market at a fraction of the cost!

“These modules at 17x22mm, 25x25mm and 35x35mm deliver variations of the form factors at a fraction of the cost, to an industry that has come to expect large and expensive modules”, commented Drew McDonald of GlonassCentral. “ We have done away with the ‘clunkiness’ for Glonass+GPS combination modules, and have the respective antennas and test boards also price below $30 per unit. The market has responded extremely positively, especially the high volume end of the market, which is very happy to have this kind of high end performance at low level pricing!”

GlonassCentral has started full production of the modules as of the beginning of August. Clients can expect expedient and immediate support and inventory access.

The product portfolio is available at the company’s website at http://www.GlonassCentral.com

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Glonass System grows by 3 more

The three new GLONASS-M satellites launched on December 14 have been set operational: GLONASS 730 in orbital slot 1, was set healthy on January 30, joining 734 and 733, which were set healthy earlier in the month. This brings to 18 the number of satellites currently in service, although GLONASS 722 continues to provide a healthy signal only on its L1 frequency. At present, the constellation only suffices to provide a 24-hour regional signal over Russian territory, although satellites can and frequently are pulled in by global high-precision users to complete an RTK solution, along with GPS satellites.

Two other satellites, GLONASS 712 and 726, are currently in maintenance mode and set unhealthy. GLONASS 726 is the satellite that has a faulty signal generator and which prompted the postponement of the launch of the Block 40 satellites. Those satellites will now be launched in March. Meanwhile, GLONASS 701, launched in 2003, and 713, launched in 2005, are in the process of being decommissioned.

TV Roscosmos has released an entertaining video on Roscosmos's new program Ekstpennogo Reagirovaniya pri Avariyah, or Emergency Response in case of Accidents (ERA).
The next GLONASS launch, of the GLONASS Block 40 satellites originally to be launched last September but returned to the Reshetnev factory because of problems with the signal generator, is now scheduled for March 2. Two of the three satellites have been transported to the Baikonur launch pad.

See video here:

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Glonass Network Expansion

Russia Building Out GLONASS Monitoring Network, Augmentation System

With a nearly restored and modernizing GLONASS system beginning to make inroads into mass market products and services, Russia has revealed plans to build out a space-based augmentation system (SBAS) and establish its first ground monitoring stations outside the Russian territory.

In a July 30 presentation at an International Committee on GNSS (ICG) working group on interoperability, Dmitry Marareskul, head of the onboard satellite navigation sector of Information Satellite System Reshetnev Corporation in Zheleznogorsk, revealed Russia’s plans to expand its network of GLONASS monitoring and measuring stations to include sites in Australia, Cuba, and South America.

Embedded systems, applications and solutions utilizing GPS and GLONASS systems are projected to maintain their growth curve exponentially into 2011.

Glonass Module (High Sensitivity)

The GPS/GLONASS Navigation RECEIVER GL-NDV68E is a high end 24-channel GPS/GLONASS receiver provides continuous all-in-view navigation satellite tracking.

There are three modes of satellite tracking:

The Mode I is system-primary and automatically selected: receiver channels track all GLONASS satellites in view, the rest channels track GPS satellites.
Other modes are available upon pilot selection:

Mode II: tracking of all GLONASS satellites in view;

Mode III: tracking of all GPS satellites in view.

The digital receiver computes position, updates ten times a second, measures position to 15 meters RMS, and measures velocity to 0.1 m/s RMS.

Main processing functions, handled by the GL-NDV68E, include:
GPS position and velocity sensing
the Receiver Autonomous Integrity Monitoring (RAIM), required for Non Precision Approach, Terminal and En Route stages of flight; the Fault Detection and Exclusion Algorithms (FDE) detect and remove erroneous measurements, providing digital interfacing. GL-NDV68E can use real-time RTCM differential correction for GLONASS and GPS. Advanced signal-processing techniques, such as Differential GNSS and Kinematics Carrier-Phase Tracking will allow GNSS systems to be certified for Category (CAT) I, II Precision Approaches in the future.

Features24-channel continuous tracking receiver. Three modes of tracking:
The Mode I is system-primary and automatically selected: tracking off all GLONASS satellites in view, free channels track GPS satellites.Other modes are available upon pilot selection:

The Mode II: tracking off all GLONASS satellites in view;

The Mode III: tracking off all GPS satellites in view. LI frequency, C/A Code GLONASS and GPS, digital processing (WAAS/EGNOS in future)Four-dimensional navigationExpanded digital interfacing capabilities.

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Glonass News- Vesti

GLONASS GNSS-literally Российской Федерации. Русский акроним стоит для GLObal' naya NAvigatsionnaya Sputnikovaya Sistema, или глобальная система спутниковой навигации.

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