“[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 ...

This article describes a live demonstration of an aviation application in Tunisia, to help the local aviation community in validating the use of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service ...

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 ...

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 the aviation sector, the European Commission said today. A satellite navigation system ...

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 ...

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