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ESA’s first two Galileo navigation satellites in space have achieved their latest milestone, transmitting dummy signals in a modulation scheme designed to allow full interoperability with the U.S. GPS once operational services start.

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The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS) Safety-of-Life signal was formally declared available to aviation on 2 March. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically guiding aircraft during landing approaches.

Norway and the European Commission have signed a co-operation agreement on satellite navigation.

A US/EU working group designed to enhance co-operation for the next generation GPS and Galileo has recently completed an assessment of the global, combined performance for GPS Space-Based Augmentation System (SBAS) receivers using the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) and the GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) supporting safety-of-life applications.
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On 12 July the European Satellite Services Provider (ESSP SAS) received a certificate of Air Navigation Service Provider according to the Single European Sky Regulation 2096/2005.
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