PosiTim, a start-up company under ESA Business Incubation, is organizing the first ever NAPEOS GNSS Software training course. For more information please visit the PosiTim web-site.

PosiTim is the winner of last year’s (2009) European Satellite Navigation Competition for the region of Hessen and the ESA special price. One of the main goals of PosiTim is to commercialize the ESA GNSS software package called NAPEOS. The distribution of NAPEOS licenses coupled with an intensive one week training course are corner stone’s for the PosiTim high accuracy GNSS services business.

The very first NAPEOS Training Course will be held from October 25 to 29, 2010, at the hotel Lopesan Costa Melonera, located on Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain. The official on-line registration for this event is now open.

PosiTim is under business incubation at the ESA Business Incubation Centre (BIC) in Darmstadt, Hessen, Germany. The ESA BIC is run by the Centre for Satellite Navigation in Hessen (CESAH).

Labels: NAPEOS, Training Course

We are in the final preparations for the very first NAPEOS training course. The official NAPEOS training course announcement with all the training course details will be announced later this week or early next week. In the pre-registration more then half of the available seats were taken, so there are still some seats available for "late" registrations.

Furthermore, the PosiTim NAPEOS license is now ready and the first two licenses have been send to our customers for review. Based on their feedback and comments we will be starting to distribute the NAPEOS licenses ASAP. PosiTim has received a total of 28 NAPEOS licenses requests. However, 7 of these requests came from non-ESA member states for which a special technology transfer board (TTB) approval is needed. This TTB approval will take more time then just generating the PosiTim license.

Labels: License, NAPEOS, Training Course

Over the last years the Navigation Support Office (OPS-GN) of the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) of the European Space Agency (ESA) has developed a new high accuracy GNSS software package. This software, called NAPEOS, is in routine usage at ESOC’s OPS-GN since January 2008 for all its activities in the scope of the International GNSS Service (IGS). The NAPEOS based ESA products are amongst the best of the IGS Analysis Centre products. As such the NAPEOS software may be considered to be of at least similar quality as the GNSS software used at the other IGS analysis centres.

With this message we would like to inform you that ESA is now ready to license the software to companies which are located (main office) in one of the ESA member state countries. This license of the NAPEOS software is free of charge. If you are interested to learn more about the NAPEOS software have a look at the web-site we have prepared for this at.

To support people who are interested in using the NAPEOS software we, PosiTim, are organising a NAPEOS training course for high accuracy GNSS processing. The course will be given in Gran Canarias, Canary Islands, Spain, from October 25 to 29, 2010. The course is limited to 20 people and will be a mixture of theory and praxis. Unfortunately the course is not free of charge as we will have to cover our costs. Detailed information regarding this NAPEOS training course may be found on our web-site.

Labels: ESA, NAPEOS, Training Course