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Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Arnór Bergur Kristinsson, from Isavia, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the most significant milestones in the implementation of the first EGNOS approach procedure at Húsavík airport (BIHU) in Iceland. The location of this country, at the border of the APV-I coverage area required the development of a dedicated EGNOS, performance research…
Tuesday, November 05, 2019
Mónica de Frutos Ortega, from AESA (Spanish Aviation Safety and Security Agency), presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the EGNOS benefits in the drone operations, taking into account the Spanish regulatory framework. Due to the high number of UAS users in Spain, the RPAS Advisory Commission at AESA has developed guidance material for UAS…
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Manuel Rivas Vila, from EASA, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the most significant milestones of the current applicable regulation with importance in the EGNOS services: PBN regulation, Regulation 2017/373 on ATM/ANS and new Basic Regulation 2018/1139. The most important Rulemaking Tasks related to PBN implementation were identified along…
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Teodoro Seoane, from ESSP, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the EGNOS system status and performance for the period of 18 April 2018-July 2019, as well as the results of the latest User Satisfaction Survey. In this period, the EGNOS Signal in Space was available at all times, and the observed Safety of Life performances covered practically…
Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Katerina Strelcova, from GSA, and José María Lorenzo, from ESSP, presented in the Annual EGNOS workshop the main achievements and benefits of EGNOS Services for the aviation community, including commercial operations, general aviation, rotorcraft operators and drone operations, amongst others. Along that line, the work done to enable EGNOS…
Friday, October 11, 2019
The EUTELSAT 5 West B satellite was successfully launched on a Proton M/Breeze M launch vehicle from Pad 39 at Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 12.17 CET on Wednesday 9 October. Hosting the GEO-3 payload of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), the satellite will support EGNOS V3 - the next generation of the…
Wednesday, October 02, 2019
The EGNOS ANNUAL WORKSHOP 2019 celebrated at the ASI (Italian Space Agency) in Rome this year, gathered entrepreneurs and SMEs, along with business and public sector professionals from industry to share remarkable EGNOS implementation examples in every domain (Aviation, Rail, Maritime, Survey, Mapping, Agriculture) and how…
Thursday, September 05, 2019
The new version of the EGNOS Service Implementation Roadmaps (v4.2) 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…
Tuesday, July 30, 2019
We are pleased to announce the new Aviation Dashboard, available under the Aviation Portal section of the website. This brand new dashboard, designed in coordination with European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs), is aimed to display EGNOS integrated information relevant to the Aviation community although it can be…
Monday, July 29, 2019
The Skyopener project, which is co-financed by the European GNSS Agency (GSA), aims to pave the way towards increased use of Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) in civil applications. The project has tested the benefits of multi-frequency GNSS and EGNOS in RPAS, revealing gains in terms of availability, accuracy and robustness.…