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High-performance ESA receiver brings satnav indoors

Paris, France - Satellite navigation is having an enormous impact on our daily lives

Satellite navigation is having an enormous impact on our daily lives. In practical terms it means the only place left to get lost is indoors, where satnav signals fail to reach. But one ESA project is changing that. With initial results presented at last week's Techno/Innovation Days, the DINGPOS (Demonstrator for Indoor GNSS Positioning) project combines a highly-sensitive receiver capable of...

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Rome, Italy, 02/26/2010 19:14
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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