Members News – Space Y

FDC’s Impact at the European Space Week 2023: A Recap

2023-11-28

The European Space Week 2023 held in Sevilla on 7-9 November gathered over 1200 participants, including key stakeholders from across the EU space sector, enthusiastic users, academics, and enterprising minds, to discuss the EU Space Programme's diverse developments. FDC, a founding member of...

Septentrio partners with SparkFun to accelerate development of positioning-based applications

2023-10-17
Leuven, Belgium

Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces today its collaboration with SparkFun Electronics, a major online retail store that sells the bits and pieces to make electronics projects possible. This marks an important step in broadening Septentrio’s market reach...

PPP corrections in South Korea provided by Hexagon

2023-10-10

Hexagon and MBC have signed an agreement to provide precise point positioning (PPP) to South Korea through the TerraStar-X Enterprise Correction Service. The aim of this PPP service is to bring instant convergence and lane-level accuracy in automotive, mobile and autonomous applications. Through...

Septentrio expands high-accuracy service options for their GPS/GNSS receivers with Topnet Live global, RTK service

2023-10-05
Leuven, Belgium

Septentrio, a leader in high-precision GNSS* positioning solutions, announces today that Topcon Positioning Systems is joining their Agnostic Corrections Partner Program. This program was launched earlier this year to facilitate the use of Septentrio receivers with various high-accuracy services,...

ESSP has become Iris Service Provider

2023-07-24

ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider) has signed a long-term contract with Viasat to become Iris Service Provider operating, providing and leading the Iris programme to European Air Navigation Service Providers (ANSPs). Iris Air Traffic Management (ATM) programme led by the European Space...

Thales – UAS100 long range surveillance drone

2023-01-04

The UAS100 is the first regulatory-compliant drone from Thales to provide a safe and secure solution with limited environmental impact for surveillance and inspection needs. It has been designed for long-range civilian and government applications. The UAS100 long range drone draws from...

M3 SYSTEMS – HAPS in addition to Cospas Sarsat for search and rescue operations

2022-12-13

A European project symbol of Belgian space competitiveness funded by the European Space Agency The global collaborative Cospas Sarsat (C/S) system can detect and locate countless distress situations and alert search and rescue services through dedicated satellites (LEOSAR, GEOSAR and recently...

ESSP SAS – EUSPA taps ESSP for EGNOS service provider role

2022-09-13

The contract includes a focus on further expanding the EGNOS service provision into new sectors and new geographical areas. The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) is Europe’s regional satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS). Used to improve the accuracy and...

M3 SYSTEMS & BOREAL SAS, early partners in the European Urban Air Mobility CORUS XUAM project

2022-03-15

The CORUS-XUAM consortium is a large-scale European project, led by SESAR JU and funded under
Horizon Europe 2020, dedicated to Urban Air Mobility (UAM). This two-year project aims at defining
and testing new services called U-Space, which are...

Hexagon | NovAtel delivers ROS 2 compatible drivers to the OEM7® receiver

2021-12-09

Hexagon | NovAtel announces the release of its second purpose-built driver, powered by the latest series of the Robot Operating System, ROS 2. The NovAtel OEM7 drivers are developed and managed by NovAtel engineers to provide an optimised interface for autonomy projects. The drivers allow for quick...