8.30 - 10.00 hrs​

Session 7. CHARTING THE FUTURE OF GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITES
Since the launching of the first GPS satellites, other countries have successfully designed satellites for their own Global Navigation Satellite Systems. Over the last decades, GPS, GLONASS, Galileo, and BeiDou have evolved – second and third generations are already on their way. With new generations, satellite manufacturers are challenged to enable further improved services and to find new, innovative solutions. In this session, satellite manufacturers from Europe, USA, China, and Russia will discuss their current challenges and the navigation satellites of the future.

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Chairman: Dr. Wolfgang Paetsch, Member of the Management Board, OHB System AG, Bremen, Germany

Panel Members:

Ivan Revnivykh, ROSCOSMOS State Space Corporation (GLONASS Team), Moscow, Russia
Jérémie Godet, Deputy Head of Unit, Galileo and EGNOS – Programme Management, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Detlef Flachs, Head of Future Programs Navigation, Airbus Defence and Space, Ottobrunn, Germany
Dr. Kristian Pauly, Director Navigation, OHB System AG, Bremen, Germany
 

10.00 - 10.30 hrs

REFRESHMENT BREAK

 

10.30 - 12.00 hrs
Session 8. THE ROLE OF GNSS WITHIN THE CONTEXT OF AUTOMATIC DRIVING
The entire automotive industry is rapidly moving towards automatic driving. Those systems are enormously complex combinations of sensors, actuators and a massive amount of software. (GNSS) Positioning is one important input for automatically driving systems. But what exact role does positioning play in the context of automatic driving? How is it used and what aspects of the positioning are most relevant for automatic driving? In this session leading OEMs and solution providers will share their current views and vision for the future regarding GNSS in the context of automatic driving.

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Chairman: Dr. Jón Winkel, Airbus Defence and Space, Ottobrunn, Germany

Panel Members:

Michael Baus, Chassis Systems Control, Project vehicle motion and position sensor, Robert Bosch GmbH, Heilbronn, Germany
Curtis Hay, Technical Fellow, General Motors, West Bloomfield, MI, USA

Javier Ibanez-Guzman, Renault, Boulogne-Billancourt, France

Sandy Kennedy, Vice President Innovation, Hexagon Positioning Intelligence, Calgary, Canada
Thomas Nigg, Senior Director Product Strategy, u-blox AG, Thalwil, Switzerland
Dr. Luis Serrano, Technical Marketing Manager, EMEA Automotive and Discrete Group, STMicroelectronics Application GmbH, Aschheim, Germany

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12.00 - 13.30 hrs
Session 9. GNSS SPACE SERVICE VOLUME

The interoperable multi-GNSS Space Service Volume (SSV) as an enabling capability for space users. Within the United Nations International Committee on GNSS (ICG), an initiative was established to ensure that GNSS signals within the SSV are available and interoperable across all international global constellations and regional augmentations. This initiative was carried out within the ICG Working Group-B (WG-B) on “Enhancement of GNSS Performance, New Services and Capabilities”. A multi-constellation, multi-frequency analysis, supported by all service providers, was conducted and the results are documented in the GNSS SSV booklet, which was released by the UN in December 2018. The objectives of the GNSS SSV Session at the Munich Summit are to provide an overview of the results from this analysis, and also to outline the evolution of this activity including potential new areas of activities.

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Chairman: Prof. Dr. Werner Enderle, Head of the Navigation Support Office, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany

Panel Members:

Joel J. K. Parker, PNT Policy Lead, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Maryland, USA

NN, ROSCOSMOS State Space Corporation, Moscow, Russia

Dr. Erik Schoenemann, Navigation Support Office, ESA/ESOC, Darmstadt

Matteo Paonni, Scientific Officer, European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), Ispra, Italy

Dr. Satoshi Kogure, Executive Director for QZSS, National Space Policy Secretariat, Cabinet Office, Tokyo, Japan

M. Ramasubramanian, Programme Director Satellite Navigation Programme, Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Bagalore, India
 

13.30 - 14.30 hrs

NETWORKING LUNCHEON

 

14.30 - 16.00 hrs
Session 10. CIVIL GPS SERVICE INTERFACE COMMITTEE
In the swiftly changing world of existing and emerging GNSSs, the U.S. Civil GPS Service Interface Committee continues to be the recognized worldwide forum for effective interaction between all civil GPS users and the U.S. GPS authorities. The GPS and GNSS civil space user segment is rapidly expanding from low Earth orbit to geostationary and lunar, requiring global coordination on policy, requirements, and technical exchange between providers and industry. Safety in aviation has never before been more demanding as we evolve from legacy navigation and surveillance
systems to modernize the airways. Striving to keep the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) system-of-systems interoperable and compatible with each other, the challenges are many as users adjust to modernized satellites. Governments are working hard to adapt to new PNT policies, user requirements, threats to GNSS spectrum, and the need to ensure PNT resiliency. The U.S. recently ushered the GPS constellation into an energized era of modernization characterized by improved performance, increased PNT capability, and global interoperability. Industry, educational, and research institutes, as well as the GNSS user community must engage with the providers of these signals to keep them abreast of ever changing user requirements.

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Chairman: John Wilde, Chair, CGSIC International Information Subcommittee

Panel Members:
Karen Van Dyke, U.S. Department of Transportation, Chair, Civil GPS Service Interface Committee, Washington, DC, USA
Joel J. K. Parker, U.S National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC, USA
Jason Kim, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC, USA
David Turner, U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC, USA
1st LT Daniel Barnes, U.S. Air Force GPS Directorate, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

16.00 - 17.15 hrs
Session 11. THE (R)EVOLUTION OF GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS
The well-thought design of the United States‘ NAVSTAR positioning system GPS has enabled a stable global navigation service for almost three decades. It was subsequently adopted by various other nations with at best minor conceptual changes. Despite continued effort to improve the overall system performance, the basic architecture of today‘s GNSSs is largely the same as envisaged in the early days of GPS. Within this session a closer look at the future of GNSSs will be taken. Panelists will discuss the near-term evolution and improvement of current systems, but also present visions of next-generation GNSSs that break with well-established paradigms. This includes the role that mega-constellations in low Earth orbit can play for global satellite navigation, as well as the proposed use of advanced optical clocks and laser-based time synchronization in the „Kepler“ concept.

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Chairman:
Dr. Oliver Montenbruck, Head of the GNSS Technology and Navigation Group, German Space Operations Center, DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

Panel Members:
Dominic Hayes, Manager of the Galileo and EGNOS Signals and Frequencies, European Commission, Brussels, Belgium

Dr. Todd Walter, Director of the GPS Lab, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

Prof. Dr. Christoph Guenther, Director, Institute of Communications and Navigation, German Aerospace Center – DLR, Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
 

17.15 hrs
CLOSING OF MUNICH SATELLITE NAVIGATION SUMMIT 2019

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