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2nd March 2010ESSP to participate in the Galileo Application Days and in ATC Global
March is going to be a very hectic month for the ESSP.
The first week the ESSP will have a Stand and an EGNOS performance monitoring kiosk at the Applications Village in Brussels. During three days, visitors will have the opportunity to visit our stand and study the EGNOS signal performance on real time with different maps and graphics. An ESSP performance engineer will be there to answer questions and to explain the different benefits of using EGNOS in real life.
The second week, the ESSP will hold a Stand at the ATC Global Fair in Amsterdam. This is one of the most important Aviation Meetings of the year. Taking into account that in 2010 the ESSP will be certified as ANSP and start providing the EGNOS Safety of Life Service, our presence in this Fair is a must. ESSP will also take part of the ATC Seminar Program, with a presentation about ESSP Services Development.
To know more about these events, please visit ESSP Events Calendar and click on the different links.
Archived news
New EGNOS User Support Website already available
New interface, faster, more flexible, more user-fliendly, more robust...
Friday December 18 is the official date for the release of the renewed EGNOS User Support Website (http://egnos-user-support.essp-sas.eu/) integrated in the ESSP SAS Website (http://www.essp-sas.eu). The new ESSP SAS corporative website was released in October 2009 and now it is the time for a new EGNOS User Support Website.
The EGNOS User Support website and the EGNOS User Support Helpdesk are the main interfaces with the EGNOS stakeholders. They are a window towards the market and towards the final users. Both can be accessed via the ESSP SAS Website.
The new EGNOS User Support Website mainly provides the same contents than the previous website but through an improved web interface in terms of robustness, flexibility, speed and user-friendliness. Additionally, it allows to easily introduce new functionalities coming from the user needs.
ESSP SAS operated already, and since 2005, an online EGNOS Ops User Support website that provided information about the system performances, service availability and many other relevant information regarding the EGNOS community. A Helpdesk was also available for any question or doubt regarding EGNOS, its services and applications.
From October 2009 the ESSP has turned into the official EGNOS Service Provider due to a Contract signed with the European Commission (EC), the EGNOS system owner. At the same time the EC declared the EGNOS Open Service (OS) available for all European citizens. The development and hosting of this new EGNOS User Support Website as well as the Helpdesk service are included in the scope of this contract.
The users already registered at the old EGNOS Ops User Support website will receive an invitation by e-mail and are kindly requested to renew their registration through the new Registration Form (http://egnos-user-support.essp-sas.eu/egnos_ops/user/register).
Commission launches EGNOS Open Service -free access to citizens and business
The European Commission has declared today the official start of operations by EGNOS, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service, with its Open Service now available for free to businesses and citizens. EGNOS is Europe's first contribution to satellite navigation and a precursor of Galileo, the global satellite navigation system that the European Union is developing.
EGNOS is a satellite-based augmentation system that improves the accuracy of satellite navigation signals over Europe. The accuracy of current GPS signals is improved from about ten metres to two metres.
EGNOS will be certified for use in aviation and other safety-critical areas in compliance with the Single European Sky regulation. Through EGNOS a Safety-of-Life service is expected to be in place by mid 2010. This service will provide a valuable warning message informing the user within six seconds in case of a malfunction of the system. A Commercial Service is under test and will also be made available in 2010.
Both the Open Service and the Safety-of-Life Service are provided free of charge, and the European Union is committed to supporting EGNOS for the long term, even after Galileo has become operational. This includes extending its geographical scope within the coverage of the three satellites involved.
The operations of EGNOS are managed, through a contract with the European Commission, by the European Satellite Services Provider, ESSP SaS, a company based in Toulouse, France, founded by seven air navigation services providers. The contract between the Commission and ESSP SaS was signed yesterday, 30 September, and will ensure the management of the EGNOS operations as well as the maintenance of the system until the end of 2013.
Preliminary version of the SDD for the EGNOS Open Service