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Friday, May 08, 2020
As the European Union celebrates Europe Day on May 9, we take a look at how the EU space programmes, themselves a result of European cooperation, are helping the European Union achieve concrete goals of a more united and prosperous Europe. Europe Day 2020 marks the 70th anniversary of the signing of the Schuman Declaration…
Monday, April 27, 2020
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has launched two calls for papers ahead of its GNSS Raw Measurements Taskforce Workshop, to be held online on 28 May 2020. The first of these calls targets innovative work using raw measurements while the second is related to testing EGNOS Data Access Service (EDAS) corrections in smartphones. If you are…
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Earth Day is celebrated around the world on April 22. Since its early days back in the seventies, Earth Day has striven to build the world’s largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and the planet. As an engine of this transformative change, space tech supports the goals of Earth Day by enabling innovative…
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
The new version of the EGNOS Service Implementation Roadmaps (v4.3) has been released and is now available at the EGNOS Service Implementation Roadmap section! The EGNOS Service Implementation Roadmaps provide a high-level overview of the expected evolution for the upcoming years on each of the EGNOS Services: Safety of Life…
Wednesday, April 08, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has had an impact on organisations, businesses, individuals and their families. As one of the few European Agencies delivering services 24/7, and with centres spread across Europe, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) has put various measures into place to ensure continuity of services and the security of EGNSS…
Friday, March 27, 2020
The EGNOS geostationary satellite (GEO) ASTRA SES-5 (GEO-1/PRN 136) has been introduced in the operational platform replacing satellite INMARSAT 4F2 (PRN 126), which has become part of the EGNOS TEST Platform broadcasting the TEST Signal-In-Space (SiS). Take a look at the updated Service Notice #22 for detailed information. With the…
Thursday, March 26, 2020
Auto-guidance is a foundational precision agriculture technology, not only optimizing in-field routes to reduce inputs and increase yield, but enabling other precision techniques to function and thrive. While correction services are necessary to increase accuracy of satellite-based guidance systems, finding the appropriate…
Thursday, March 05, 2020
Geodetski zavod Celje d.o.o. (GZC) is an international company with more than 60 years of experience providing consultation and technical assistance services to the public sector. GZC is specialised in spatial and rural development planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation as well as in the provision of technical assistance in the…
Friday, February 28, 2020
The EGNOS geostationary satellite (GEO) ASTRA 5-B (GEO-2/PRN 123) has been introduced in the operational platform replacing satellite ASTRA SES-5 (GEO-1/PRN 136), which has become part of the EGNOS TEST Platform broadcasting the TEST Signal-In-Space. This current Space Segment configuration will last until 16th March 2020, when the planned third…
Monday, February 24, 2020
As one of the three European Space Programs, EGNOS had a prominent role at the European Space Week event that took place in December 2019 in Helsinki, Finland. Being a key conference in the space sector, the Paasitorni congress centre gathered business, policy-makers, international experts and the space user community on a…