“[O]NE ORBIT, WITH A RADIUS OF 42,000 KM, has a period of exactly 24 hours. A body in such an orbit, if its plane coincided with that of the earth’s equator, would revolve with the earth and would ...

The European Commission has announced the official start of operations of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), a satellite based augmentation system (SBAS) that improves the ...

Thales Alenia Space has signed a new €78 million contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission, to upgrade Europe’s EGNOS satellite navigation system. Thales ...

No audio available for this content. By Ugo Celestino, European Commission, Antonella Di Fazio, Telespazio SpA, Vicente José Giner Herrera, Ineco, Patrizio Vanni, ENAV SpA, and Francisco Javier Deblas ...

On 2 March, the European Commission launched the EGNOS “Safety-of-Life” service for aviation. The EGNOS system enables precision approaches and renders air navigation safer as well as helps reducing ...

A satellite navigation system five times as accurate as current models will benefit everyone from the blind to those employed within the aviation sector, the European Commission said last Friday. The ...

The US Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) is the world's first satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) to provide horizontal and vertical navigation for aircraft precision approaches. Created by ...

EGNOS is a satellite navigation network currently being implemented all over Europe. In 2005 this network will enable everyone with an EGNOS receiver to pinpoint a position far more accurately than ...

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PARIS & PRAGUE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has selected Eutelsat Communications (Euronext Paris: ETL) (Paris:ETL) for the development, integration and operation ...