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5-Jul-2018 10:39 AM

Egis and Thales Alenia Space to lead evolution of EGNOS

EU Commission awarded (03-Jul-2018) a consortium including Egis and Thales Alenia Space a 12 month contract to analyse "possible evolutions in future aviation services" for the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS), Europe satellite based augmentation system. Under Horizon 2020, the project will address the long term evolution of EGNOS beyond the currently defined V3 service releases. The project will particularly focus on:

  • Enlarge the provision of EGNOS beyond navigation, notably to address surveillance and possibly support timing services for communication systems;
  • provide additional features to increase the robustness against external intentional or unintentional threats/attacks;
  • Enhance the navigation, positioning and/or timing performance provided at user level, such as improving the vertical position accuracy and the time to alert to enable supporting CAT II approach procedures. [more - original PR]

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