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<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">I am happy to inform you that the new RINEX version 4.0<span lang="EN-US">2</span><span> </span>has been officially released on the IGS webpage: <a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://files.igs.org/pub/data/format/rinex_4.02.pdf__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!Nbv5d3VTdQwNgfxmK-O5K4lu8TAwCOFpNskm69TwJnUGWU04Egr5SeeR-tAFRdy94pHqv4c_nji286ym-HL_Iw-B1KpV$" data-ogsc="" title="https://eur05.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefense.us%2Fv3%2F__https%3A%2F%2Ffiles.igs.org%2Fpub%2Fdata%2Fformat%2Frinex_4.02.pdf__%3B!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!Nbv5d3VTdQwNgfxmK-O5K4lu8TAwCOFpNskm69TwJnUGWU04Egr5SeeR-tAFRdy94pHqv4c_nji286ym-HL_Iw-B1KpV%24&data=05%7C02%7Cfrancesco.gini%40esa.int%7Cb1cad4879db54fbc0b8a08dced377cd0%7C9a5cacd02bef4dd7ac5c7ebe1f54f495%7C0%7C1%7C638646069802747681%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=ky414jTZFwJNQNqSlDlPkYjT3NrwbJyzeuuE%2BwF3VMo%3D&reserved=0" data-outlook-id="bc69e8ea-4362-49fa-a10c-3c4bc9e5e75a" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 134, 240);">https://files.igs.org/pub/data/format/rinex_4.0<span lang="EN-US">2</span>.pdf</a>,
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<span lang="EN-US"><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://igs.org/wg/rinex/*documents-formats__;Iw!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!Nbv5d3VTdQwNgfxmK-O5K4lu8TAwCOFpNskm69TwJnUGWU04Egr5SeeR-tAFRdy94pHqv4c_nji286ym-HL_Iydo7NQM$" title="Original URL:
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<span lang="EN-US"><span lang="EN-GB" style="text-decoration: underline; color: rgb(0, 134, 240);"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://urldefense.us/v3/__https://igs.org/formats-and-standards/__;!!PvBDto6Hs4WbVuu7!Nbv5d3VTdQwNgfxmK-O5K4lu8TAwCOFpNskm69TwJnUGWU04Egr5SeeR-tAFRdy94pHqv4c_nji286ym-HL_Iydt4QpT$" title="Original URL:
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<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><b><u>RIENX 4.02 highlights</u></b></p>
<p style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">The main changes with respect to the previous version are:</p>
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<li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">RINEX observations-related updates:<span> </span></span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm">
<li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Update of the Epoch time tagging in Observation files to allow for extra second digits to reach pico-sec resolution</span></li></ul>
<li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">RINEX navigation messages-related updates:</span></li><ul type="circle" style="margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm">
<li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif">Addition of<span lang="EN-US"><span> </span>NavIC L1<span> </span><b>L1NV</b><span> </span>Navigation message</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Addition of GLONASS<span> </span><b>L1OC</b>, and<span> </span><b>L3OC</b><span> </span>CDMA Navigation message</span></li><li style="margin:0cm;font-size:11pt;font-family:Aptos, sans-serif"><span lang="EN-US">Addition of navigation message subtypes for all navigation record message, and definition of subtypes for the QZSS<span> </span><b>ION</b><span> </span>and NavIC<span> </span><b>ION</b><span> </span>messages</span></li></ul>
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Many thanks to all contributors and to the entire IGS RINEX committee that made this possible. Your continuous support<span> is very much appreciated.<span></span></span><span></span></div>
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</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black;">Francesco Gini, PhD </span></p>
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