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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Twenty years ago, on June 21, 1992, the IGS
saw first light with the
launch of the 1992 IGS Test Campaign. The Test Campaign –
organized by the
so-called IGS Campaign Oversight Committee chaired by Gerhard
Beutler and based
on plans of the IGS Planning Committee led by Ivan I. Mueller –
was intended to
operate during summer 1992 and to end on September 23, 1992. IGS
activities
did, however, never end since 21 June 1992: Activities first
continued on a
best effort basis, the so-called IGS Pilot Service was
subsequently launched in
fall 1992, and official IGS activities started on January 1,
1994, as an IAG
Service. The network grew from about 30 tracking stations in
1992 to more than
430 today and from a handful of contributing institutions to a
voluntary
federation of more than 200 organisations. The IGS concept,
demonstrated twenty
years ago, proved to be successful beyond expectation. The IGS
continues to be
the undisputed source for highest accuracy GNSS data and
products.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Happy birthday IGS!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Urs Hugentobler<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span
style="font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:
EN-GB" lang="EN-GB">Chair, IGS Governing Board<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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