EGNOS navigation system begins serving Europe?s aircraft

Today, the EGNOS Safety-of-Life signal was formally declared available to aviation. For the first time, space-based navigation signals have become officially usable for the critical task of vertically guiding aircraft during landing approaches.

Link: http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEM98MUTLKG_index_0.html

Time: 2. Mar. 2011

Feed: ESA Top News

Topics: aircraft, egnos, navigation