The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe’s regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS). Used to improve the accuracy and reliability of GNSS positioning information, EGNOS is designed to provide safety of life navigation services to aviation, maritime and land-based users across the EU.

On the 18th of February 2021, ENAC, the French Civil Aviation University, acknowledged as one of the major training organizations in the aeronautics and air transport field in Europe, and ESSP, European Satellite Service Provider, the European SBAS operator and service provider (EGNOS), consolidated their cooperation by signing a partnership agreement with the objective to make the promotion of European Global Navigation Satellite System (EGNSS) in general, and EGNOS in particular

ESSP et NLA avaient candidaté pour la "fourniture du service EGNOS pour les exploitants d’hélicoptères dans l'espace aérien de classe G", mettant ainsi en valeur leur contribution à une gestion sécurisée et efficiente de l'espace aérien.

La empresa ESSP (European Satellite Service Provider), en una nominación conjunta con la sociedad NLA (Norsk Luftambulanse As), ha sido galardonada con el Premio “ATM Awards 2020” en la categoría "Provisión de Servicio",  por el desarrollo del caso "Esquema de prestación de servicios EGNOS para operadores de helicópteros en clase G Airspace”, en el que se reconocen las contribuciones a una gestión segura, rentable y eficiente del espacio aéreo.

ESSP (European Satellite Service Provider), in a joint nomination with NLA (Norsk Luftambulanse As), have been awarded the 2020 ATM Award in the “Service Provision” category with a case named “EGNOS service provision scheme for rotorcraft operators in class G Airspace”, recognising contributions to safe, cost-effective and efficient airspace management.

Munich Satellite Navigation Summit is a two-day international conference, the perfect occasion to have an updated status of the various GNSS (GPS, Beidou, Glonass, Navic [India], QZSS [Japan] and Galileo of course) and SBAS systems in the world (WAAS, EGNOS, GAGAN, SDCM and MSAS [Japan]), and to meet with the European GNSS community.

A major milestone was reached on 31 May with the signature of a 7-year contract with Airbus for the support to EGNOS v3 development.

The World ATM Congress 2018 has come to an end. During three exciting days ESSP and the European GNSS Agency worked together in order to promote the EGNOS benefits.