Global Positioning: EGNOS and Galileo
Europe has followed a two-step approach to develop its own global navigation satellite system. The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS)--the forerunner to Galileo--was developed by ESA in partnership with the EU and EUROCONTROL, the European Organization for the Safety of Air Navigation.
EGNOS, already available throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, utilizes a network of ground stations and transponders installed in geostationary satellites to improve the accuracy of information derived from U.S. GPS signals. Financed by the EU, EGNOS is the first European-owned and operated satellite navigation infrastructure, and contributes to safer and more …
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Article title: Global Positioning: EGNOS and Galileo.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: Foreign Policy.
Issue: 173
Publication date: July-August 2009.
Page number: S7.
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