Institute of Navigation talk

[Mike O'Dell]

APRS junkies should consider joining ION
as well as attend this talk.

	-mo

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Date:    Fri, 10 Aug 2007 09:39:26 -0400
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Subject: REMINDER: ION DC Section Meeting - Wednesday, August 15th

Resent:  Fri, 10 Aug 2007 11:52:13 -0400
	 modell at nea.com

ION DC Section Meeting Announcement

"How Do GPS Satellites die...."
Presented by Mr. Frank Czopek, The Boeing Company, Program Manager =20
for GPS Program Block II/IIA

Date: Wednesday, August 15, 2007

Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Location: Building 56, U.S. Naval Observatory, Massachusetts Avenue, =20
Washington, DC

Cover Charge: $20 per person. Students will have no cover charge.

Registration Deadline: RSVP by COB on Monday, August 13, 2007.  =20
Please provide an email address to the ION National Office when =20
registering.

Security Note: The meeting is open to all.  You need to register with =20
the ION National Office in advance of the meeting.  International =20
guests need to provide their nationality when registering.

Agenda:
6:00 - 7:00 Happy Hour
7:00 - 7:15 Section Business Meeting
7:15 - 8:00 Speaker

Lecture Information:
Originally the Block II/IIA GPS satellites were designed to last 6 =20
years and all but a few have surpassed that mark with ease.
How long will they last?   The GPS program has been working on this =20
question for nearly 10 years.
In this time, an analytical statistical approach has been developed =20
to address this issue.  This approach has been
possible due to the size of GPS satellites.  The talk will review the =20
history of the model and how random events
can be modeled.  Also how the model has stood up to challenges and =20
finally discuss the impact of the model
to various communities (Technical, Military, Civil, Budget and Policy).

Frank has been with the GPS program 23 years and is currently the =20
Program Manager for the
GPS BLK II/IIA support contract.  Frank has been the Responsible =20
engineer for both the NAV and
L-Band payloads.  He holds a BSME from Michigan Technological =20
University and a MSSAE from
University of Southern California.

Directions:
Please use the South Gate when entering the USNO grounds.  Refer to =20
the map of the USNO,
found at http://www.usno.navy.mil/USNOMap.gif.  More detailed =20
directions to the U.S. Naval
Observatory may be found at http://www.usno.navy.mil/directions.shtml.


Please register for this event by responding to this email or by
contacting the ION National Office
at (703) 383-9688 during normal business hours. When registering,
please provide your name(s), number of persons who will be attending,
and your email address to the ION National Office. For future
reference, the ION email address is membership at ion.org.

Additional questions about this event may be sent to Jim Simpson at
James.E.Simpson at nasa.govor (301) 286-1139.

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