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A EUR 10,000 cash prize is on offer to agricultural students and young farmers across Europe. The ‘Farming by Satellite’ award, an initiative of the GSA is sponsored by agricultural machinery manufacturer CLAAS and crop science experts Bayer.

Citizens across Europe will be able to get close to the space applications and services that are making a major impact on our everyday lives thanks to a new EU travelling exhibition. The show makes its debut in June in Copenhagen and, of course, Galileo and EGNOS will be taking staring roles!

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has published its second Global Satellite Navigation System (GNSS) Market Report, providing key information in support of entrepreneurship in the satellite navigation sector.

Constructing and maintaining the road network is an expensive endeavour. But with the help of specialised satellite positioning equipment developed under a Galileo FP7 project, the route to optimal road quality and cost saving could now be a matter of course.

At the 20th AERO Friedrichshafen, representatives of the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA), and Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) highlighted the importance of EGNOS for general aviation and discussed its challenges.

At the AERO Friedrichshafen, a global show for general aviation in Germany, we had the opportunity to meet and converse with Michiel Klinkspoor, a European (EASA) and United States (FAA) Flight Instructor from The Netherlands who uses EGNOS.

On 15th May the European GNSS Agency (GSA) launched a public consultation on the Galileo Commercial Service (CS). Businesses and service providers throughout the European Union are invited to share their views, ideas, and potential requirements, to help build this high-performing service targeted at commercial applications.

The project CLOSE-SEARCH, led by the Institute of Geomatics (Spain), will soon come to an end. The project supports the development of an unmanned vehicle prototype to detect people lost in difficult to access areas by means of body heat detection

Delegates to the third Marrakesh Air Show in April were able to learn about progress in enabling African and Arabic countries to enjoy the benefits of EGNOS and Galileo

Now in its ninth year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition is once again on the hunt for world-beating ideas for satellite navigation applications.