Europe made its first venture into satellite navigation with EGNOS, a service which has significantly improved the accuracy of existing satellite positioning signals.
The European Commission is launching the procurement Galileo Commercial Service Demonstrator.
Green light for European satellite navigation: today in a public demonstration in Fucino, Italy, European Commission Vice President Antonio Tajani will announce a successful position fix on the basis of the EU’s current four Galileo satellites.
A more influential Europe needs a strong and active common foreign and security policy, which in turn demands a more competitive and efficient defence and security sector.
Deployment of the solar wings on the latest Galileo satellite is shown being checked at ESA’s technical hub in the Netherlands. The navigation satellite’s pair of 1 x 5 m solar wings, carrying more than 2500 state-of-the-art gallium arsenide solar cells, will power the satellite during its 12-year working life.
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 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.
The year 2013 is a key one for the EU’s efforts to promote dual-use synergies between Europe’s civil security and defence sectors, told Antonio Tajani, European Commissioner for Industry and Enterprise Policy at the Subcommittee on Security and Defence meeting on 24 April 2013 in the European Parliament.
The European Commission has today proposed a Council decision authorising EU Member States to sign the treaty on the international trade in conventional weapons, the so-called Arms Trade Treaty (ATT).
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.
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.
