This process aims at collecting valuable feedback from current and potential EGNOS Open Service (OS) users and stakeholders. It will run until July 12th, 2013.
On June 26th, a €450 million contract for the provision of EGNOS services until 2021 was signed by the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the European Satellites Services Provider (ESSP SAS) in the presence of European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani. (picture : courtesy of ESSP)
On June 10th, 2013, the UNOOSA unveiled a newcomer in their permanent exhibit at the Vienna International Center.
These pictures give the first detailed views of the next batch of Galileo satellites, the first of which has already been delivered to ESA for rigorous testing in simulated space conditions.
This is a service contract with the objective of procuring a study to define the needs and functions of a future Galileo Troubleshooting Platform, to identify already existing means developed during the system infrastructure design and deployment and to identify the needs and functions of a future Galileo Integrated Logistics Support Centre.
The railway sector can be seen as the sum of three types of actors: infrastructure managers, operators and manufacturers (i.e. the railway supply industry).
The European Commission today put forward an action plan for the European Steel Industry to help this sector confront today’s challenges and lay the foundations for future competitiveness by fostering innovation, creating growth and jobs. For the first time since the Davignon Plan of 1977, the Commission is proposing an Action Plan for steel.
The object of the present framework contract is the Operation and related Hosting Services for the GNSS Service Centre. This centre will be deployed and operated in Madrid, Spain. The site, provided by Spain, is subject to a Hosting Agreement between the EC and Spain.
The European Commission is launching the procurement of the GNSS Service Centre. This centre will be deployed and operated in Madrid, Spain.
This contract aims at measuring over time the innovative and technological performance of EU GNSS Industry by setting up and performing the monitoring of its patenting activity vis-à-vis the world competitors in the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) related categories.
The workshop will bring together the European Commission (EC) and stakeholders and enable them to exchange their viewpoints and experience about the European GNSS downstream applications sector.
The first satellite of Galileo’s next phase has arrived at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands for a rigorous set of tests to check its readiness for launch.
6 new Partner Regions joined the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2013.
Although we enjoy the free movement of goods in the internal market, more than 15 000 national technical regulations can make it difficult for enterprises to sell their products (from bicycles to foodstuffs) in other Member States.
Today, April 29th, the European Commission published a Call for Ideas about the Definition of potential Research & Development activities to be carried out in the Global Navigation Satellite System and funded under Horizon 2020.
Horizon 2020 is the next Research and Development (R&D) framework programme of the European Union, to be launched in 2014 and covering the period 2014 – 2020. Within this programme, R&D activities shall be carried out in the frame of satellite navigation.
The objective of this public consultation is to obtain input and a broader range of views on the way the European Commission should maximise and ensure the market uptake of GNSS downstream applications and of the European GNSS downstream applications in particular.
Counterfeiting activities account for over €200 billion in losses for the world economy and it is estimated that such losses may climb further. They harm the European economy, as they damage legitimate business and starve innovation. And fake goods compete unfairly with genuine products, putting many jobs at risk in Europe.
"It is time for the EU to have its own civil navigation system in order to avoid depending on third countries' systems", said Marian-Jean Marinescu MEP who lead the negotiations with the Council.
The Galileo European Navigation Satellite Service takes another step towards its promising future : UTC time dissemination test successfully passed.
