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The GSA has published a call - OJ/S 299295-2019-EN - in the Official Journal of the European Union containing all the information on the EGNOS Service Provider call.

The EGNOS Service Provision consists in delivering three types of services: the Open Service (OS), the Safety of Life service (SoL) and EGNOS Data Access Services (EDAS). The current Version 2 of the EGNOS System was developed in the early 2000s and is to be replaced by a new generation (named EGNOS V3), which is currently under development.

This latter is foreseen to enter into service in 2024. After the completion of the transition to V3, the V2 system will be decommissioned. The first version of EGNOS V3, V3.1, is expected to ensure continuity of EGNOS augmentation of GPS L1, while the second EGNOS V3 version, V3.2, will provide additional SBAS service capabilities through a new SBAS channel on L5, including augmentation of Galileo on top of GPS signals. EGNOS V3 security will be reinforced to increase the robustness of EGNOS services against potential threats.

Presently, the provision of EGNOS Services is ensured via the current ESP contract, which continues until the end of 2021, as a baseline. The subject of the present procurement is the continuation of the EGNOS service provision.

It is expected that the next EGNOS Service Provider will be in charge of:

• the delivery of EGNOS Open Service and Safety of Life service and contribution to EDAS service provision based on EGNOS V2 infrastructure from the end of the current ESP contract, following a hand-over from the current contractor, including operations, integrated logistics support, service performance and security monitoring, user services, some maintenance tasks, support to service and system evolutions, EGNOS releases deployment, etc.
• the management of V2 to V3 transition;
• the delivery of the EGNOS services listed in (i), extended to DFMC services based on EGNOS V3 infrastructure until the end of the contract as explained in the procurement documents; and
• the decommissioning of the EGNOS V2 infrastructure.

The contract is expected to be signed before the end of 2020, with a duration of 8 years and an option for extension by up to 24 months.

As EGNOS provides Safety of Life (SoL) service for civil aviation, the next EGNOS service provider will have to be certified according to the European Single European Sky regulations, and maintain this certificate for the duration of the Contract. The Contractor shall have the responsibility and obligation to complete the certification process by September 2021 as per the applicable EASA rules and procedures.

Call details are available here.

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Space is in high demand in the Galileo Demo Centre, opened at the NAVIS Centre in Hanoi by the BELS+ project. The Demo Centre provides European companies with a venue to showcase their GNSS-based solutions to stakeholders from South East Asia, and BELS+ is offering vouchers to interested companies to support the installation of their products in the Centre. The call to apply is closing soon, so don’t miss out!

BELS+ aims to develop GNSS markets for EU companies and help EU GNSS applications gain a foothold in South East Asia. With this aim in mind, the project opened the Galileo Demo Centre at the NAVIS Centre in Hanoi, Vietnam, as a venue where European companies can showcase their GNSS-based solutions.

The Demo Centre offers companies the opportunity to establish business relations in the SEA region and provides a venue to promote their GNSS-based products and services as well as to find the right business partners and potential customers in the South East Asia region.

Read this: BELS Builds Bridges to Southeast Asia

Given these benefits, it is no surprise that demand for space in the Centre is high, and several European companies are already showcasing or preparing the presentation of their products and solutions in the Demo Centre. These include: Septentrio (Belgium), NSL and Spirent (UK), SpacEarth and SpaceExe (Italy), ANavS, navXperience, TeleOrbit and IFEN (Germany), marXact (the Netherlands), and Bluecover and TeroMovigo (Portugal).

What’s on offer?

BELS+ has opened a call for companies interested in space in the Galileo Demo Centre. The project is offering interested companies vouchers to support the installation of their products. Successful applicants will receive up to EUR 2,500 to cover travel and accommodation expenses in Hanoi and up to EUR 3,000 to cover expenses connected with setting up their demos, such as shipping costs and import duties.

The call to apply for a voucher is closing soon, so don’t miss out! For more information and to apply, click here.

About BELS+

BELS - Building European Links towards Southeast Asia - was set up in 2015 and extended, as BELS+, in 2018 to facilitate the breakthrough of EGNSS technology in the South East Asian (SEA) market. Funded under Horizon 2020, BELS+ conducts a range of coordinated activities to raise awareness and build capacities for the exploitation of EGNSS technologies in South East Asia.

And this: Exporting Galileo – developing EGNSS markets outside Europe

The BELS+ consortium brings together partners from Europe and South East Asia, including European companies with a presence in the region, as well as leading universities. Together, these partners concentrate on three core objectives:

• Opening new markets to EU companies;
• Increasing awareness of EGNSS technology through workshops;
• Increasing the technical expertise of people in the region.

One of the project’s core aims is to promote Galileo and demonstrate how it can benefit the region. This work is particularly important as the SEA region lacks its own satellite navigation capabilities and is therefore dependent on other national or regional systems.

For more information, visit the project portal.

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V pátek 5. července bude na oběžnou dráhu vypuštěna další česká vědecko-technologická družice Lucky-7, postavená soukromou společností SkyFox Labs. Společně s ní bude vypuštěno dalších 31 družic, mezi nimiž bude i družice Socrat-R, na jejíž palubě jsou dva české dozimetry vyvinuté na akademické půdě.

V pátek 5. července bude na oběžnou dráhu vypuštěna další česká vědecko-technologická družice Lucky-7, postavená soukromou společností SkyFox Labs. Společně s ní bude vypuštěno dalších 31 družic, mezi nimiž bude i družice Socrat-R, na jejíž palubě jsou dva české dozimetry vyvinuté na akademické půdě.

At the ‘A Day with EO’ conference, held as part of the annual assembly of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), stakeholders from various sectors came together to discuss the multiple activities that have been made possible, or influenced by Earth Observation. At the event, GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides spoke about how the collective experience of the GSA’s market development team would be engaged to benefit the Copernicus programme.

In a series of panel discussions at the conference, stakeholders outlined how Earth Observation (EO) data is leveraged to improve efficiency and tackle a wide range of challenges – from food production and environmental protection to the built environment, security and the management of cultural heritage.

Golden era for EO

Will Marshall, founder and CEO of satellite designer Planet said that we are currently living in “a golden era for Earth Observation,” thanks to new datasets and advances in machine learning that enable more applications based on this data. “You can’t fix what you can’t see,” he said, adding that action to save the planet required data on a faster time-scale than the planet is changing.

In his presentation Patrick Child, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), noted that if we are currently in the ‘golden era of EO’, then this is “precisely because we are facing some immediate and significant existential challenges for the planet, and EO will need to be a big part of the response to these challenges – in particular the challenge of climate change.”

Read this: EGNSS and EO: A promising convergence for sustainable development

Child noted that there was a strong and growing demand internationally for research and innovation and for EO in particular to bring solutions. He said that the EU was currently leading the global debate on climate change and sustainability. Child noted that the EU had made significant investment in developing its EO systems and was keen that this investment should bring benefits to European industry, which is ideally placed to rise to these challenges.

Kamil Kiljanski, Head of Unit for Space Data for Societal Challenges and Growth at DG GROW, noted that, to reap the greatest benefits from EO data, it is important that it be combined with other data. He specifically noted the importance of interaction between the Copernicus and Galileo programmes.

Space Regulation

Kiljanski said that, with its new Space Regulation, the Commission was moving in this direction – more towards its traditional role of gatekeeper and market regulator, operating and exploiting the systems with the assistance of specialised agencies, in particular the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in Prague, the European Space Agency, Eumetsat and all the other entities involved in the delivery of Copernicus services.

“We are really looking forward to helping to make Copernicus an even bigger success than it is today,” GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides at ‘A Day with EO’

European GNSS Agency (GSA) Executive Director Carlo des Dorides confirmed that his agency is well placed to provide this assistance, in particular thanks to its market development team, whose work has made a significant contribution to the success of the Galileo programme. “Today we have close to one billion users worldwide. This is the most visible figure, but there are also success stories in the maritime sector, in civil aviation, in the automotive and rail sectors and many others,” des Dorides said.

And this: Space serving our blue planet

Des Dorides noted that the new Space Regulation would bring a horizontal dimension to the EU space programmes. “For the first time we have one regulation for both GNSS and Copernicus. This is important because it creates a uniform approach for the two programmes,” he said.

He stressed that the role of the GSA was to support the Commission, to support market development and to communicate about and promote the EU space programme, including Copernicus. “There are three main areas of focus along these lines, one is to adopt a user-centric approach, the second is to maximise the social and economic value of the Copernicus programme, leveraging all the services, and finally to develop the downstream segment using Horizon Europe,” he said, adding: “We are really looking forward to helping to make Copernicus an even bigger success than it is today.”

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At the ‘A Day with EO’ conference, held as part of the annual assembly of the European Association of Remote Sensing Companies (EARSC), stakeholders from various sectors came together to discuss the multiple activities that have been made possible, or influenced by Earth Observation. At the event, GSA Executive Director Carlo des Dorides spoke about how the collective experience of the GSA’s market development team would be engaged to benefit the Copernicus programme.

In a series of panel discussions at the conference, stakeholders outlined how Earth Observation (EO) data is leveraged to improve efficiency and tackle a wide range of challenges – from food production and environmental protection to the built environment, security and the management of cultural heritage.

Golden era for EO

Will Marshall, founder and CEO of satellite designer Planet said that we are currently living in “a golden era for Earth Observation,” thanks to new datasets and advances in machine learning that enable more applications based on this data. “You can’t fix what you can’t see,” he said, adding that action to save the planet required data on a faster time-scale than the planet is changing.

In his presentation Patrick Child, Deputy Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Research and Innovation (DG RTD), noted that if we are currently in the ‘golden era of EO’, then this is “precisely because we are facing some immediate and significant existential challenges for the planet, and EO will need to be a big part of the response to these challenges – in particular the challenge of climate change.”

Read this: EGNSS and EO: A promising convergence for sustainable development

Child noted that there was a strong and growing demand internationally for research and innovation and for EO in particular to bring solutions. He said that the EU was currently leading the global debate on climate change and sustainability. Child noted that the EU had made significant investment in developing its EO systems and was keen that this investment should bring benefits to European industry, which is ideally placed to rise to these challenges.

Kamil Kiljanski, Head of Unit for Space Data for Societal Challenges and Growth at DG GROW, noted that, to reap the greatest benefits from EO data, it is important that it be combined with other data. He specifically noted the importance of interaction between the Copernicus and Galileo programmes.

Space Regulation

Kiljanski said that, with its new Space Regulation, the Commission was moving in this direction – more towards its traditional role of gatekeeper and market regulator, operating and exploiting the systems with the assistance of specialised agencies, in particular the European Union Agency for the Space Programme in Prague, the European Space Agency, Eumetsat and all the other entities involved in the delivery of Copernicus services.

Thanks to new datasets and advances in machine learning we are now living in a golden era for Earth Observation

European GNSS Agency (GSA) Executive Director Carlo des Dorides confirmed that his agency is well placed to provide this assistance, in particular thanks to its market development team, whose work has made a significant contribution to the success of the Galileo programme. “Today we have close to one billion users worldwide. This is the most visible figure, but there are also success stories in the maritime sector, in civil aviation, in the automotive and rail sectors and many others,” des Dorides said.

And this: Space serving our blue planet

Des Dorides noted that the new Space Regulation would bring a horizontal dimension to the EU space programmes. “For the first time we have one regulation for both GNSS and Copernicus. This is important because it creates a uniform approach for the two programmes,” he said.

He stressed that the role of the GSA was to support the Commission, to support market development and to communicate about and promote the EU space programme, including Copernicus. “There are three main areas of focus along these lines, one is to adopt a user-centric approach, the second is to maximise the social and economic value of the Copernicus programme, leveraging all the services, and finally to develop the downstream segment using Horizon Europe,” he said, adding: “We are really looking forward to helping to make Copernicus an even bigger success than it is today.”

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