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Tuesday, October 09, 2018
The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the H2020 Space NCP Network COSMOS2020 are organising a Horizon 2020 International Space Information Day and Brokerage Event at the GSA’s Prague headquarters on 11-12 October 2018. The aim of the event is to inform participants about space opportunities in Horizon 2020 and beyond and to provide…
Monday, October 08, 2018
New Holland is one of the top selling machinery manufacturers for agriculture, providing tractors, combine harvesters, balers, ploughs and tillage equipment, among others in Europe. GNSS guidance systems correspond nowadays to essential equipment offered with New Holland’s agricultural vehicles, as they allow farmers to improve the performance…
Tuesday, October 02, 2018
Jetcall is a German air ambulance operator transporting an excess of 400 patients each year, with missions from and to Europe, Asia, Africa, America and Australia. Typically, air ambulance services are provided in an environment requiring a lot of flexibility in planning, very short activation times, 24h execution capability or mission…
Monday, October 01, 2018
The GSA, under collaboration with ESSP, has published a new version of the Service Definition Document (SDD) for the EGNOS Safety of Life service! This long awaited release comes with a whole new collection of many important topics and improved performances. The EGNOS Safety of Life service, supporting in particular safety-critical operations…
Thursday, September 27, 2018
For four days during the third week of September the focus in Berlin was on InnoTrans and EGNOS was present there at Hall 6.2. This edition boasted record exhibitor and trade visitor numbers: around 160.000 trade visitors from over 110 countries and 3.062 exhibiting companies and institutions from 61 countries, all of them contributing to the…
Friday, September 14, 2018
Today, RPAS operations are usually limited to segregated airspace or visual line of sight conditions, and operators and manufacturers rarely integrate certified avionics on-board. However, for RPAS to operate autonomously with other airspace users in a shared airspace volume, certified avionic equipment will probably be needed. This…
Monday, September 10, 2018
EDAS (EGNOS Data Access Service) is the EGNOS Data Access Service providing access over the Internet to EGNOS data and corrections. In particular, the EDAS Ntrip Service provides access to the GNSS measurements (RTCM 2.1, 2.3 and 3.1 formats) coming from the EGNOS stations through the Ntrip protocol in real-time, including phase…
Thursday, August 30, 2018
Agriculture is one of the main sectors to benefit from synergies between the flagship EU Space Programmes EGNOS, Galileo and Copernicus, with European-GNSS and Earth Observation technologies being leveraged to implement the Common Agricultural Policy. Representatives from national Paying Agencies, the European Commission, ESA and the GSA…
Wednesday, August 29, 2018
Agriculture and Space Day, to be held in Brussels on September 5, will showcase how Europe’s space programme is revolutionising agricultural production, making it more efficient and reducing the environmental impact of the sector.                             …
Thursday, August 23, 2018
GEO 136 will be placed into the Operational Platform from 23/08/2018 at 10:00 UTC and GEO 120 will be placed into Test Platform from 30/08/2018 at 13:00 UTC, as previously announced on the Service Implementation Roadmaps. You can find here below a summary table describing the operational GEOs during the mentioned time frame: …