During the Farnborough International Airshow (FIA), the European GNSS Agency (GSA) and the EBAA announced the launch of strategic discussions aimed at coordinating future joint venture actions to promote implementation of EGNOS at regional airports.

The 2014 edition of the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) has seen record numbers of entries – with the European GNSS Agency (GSA) Special Prize being particularly popular. The competition is now in its evaluation stage, selecting the winners that will be announced at the Awards Ceremony in Berlin on 23 October.

The GNSS.asia project is making a big impact in India, bringing together high level decision-makers, key industrial players and academics with representatives from European companies and institutions to discuss opportunities for industrial cooperation on Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) applications.

With new satellite launches planned for this year, Galileo is poised to move into Early Services provision by late 2014/early 2015. The next release of EGNOS is already being developed and will provide improved signal and capacity performance and increased coverage by late 2017. On top of this, the European GNSS market is rapidly expanding – both upstream and downstream. In fact, GSA analysis shows growth over the coming years to continue at nearly 10 percent of the overall GNSS market share.

With the first Horizon 2020 Call for Applications in Satellite Navigation in full-swing, the European GNSS Agency (GSA) takes stock of FP7’s successes.

Newly validated LPV approach procedures in Tunisia are making use of North Africa’s EGNOS coverage.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) and members of the European space community discuss the Prospective State-of-Play of EU space programmes at the Sixth Conference on EU Space Policy.

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) joins President of the European Commission José Manuel Barroso, Vice President Antonio Tajani and the European space community to discuss the future of space policy in Europe.

To encourage more people to participate, organisers have extended the deadline to register for the €13,000 Farming by Satellite Prize to 28 February 2014.

GSA launches consultations on technology roadmap for the Galileo Public Regulated Services (PRS) in support of the user segment development and market uptake.