{"id":53044,"date":"2023-07-25T17:12:11","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:12:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-taps-spire-to-design-space-based-aircraft-surveillance-system\/"},"modified":"2023-07-25T17:12:11","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T09:12:11","slug":"esa-taps-spire-to-design-space-based-aircraft-surveillance-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-taps-spire-to-design-space-based-aircraft-surveillance-system\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Taps Spire to Design Space-based Aircraft Surveillance System"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>The<b> European Space Agency<\/b> (ESA) awarded <b>Spire Global <\/b>a contract to design an aircraft surveillance system. It is a 16 million euro phased contract for a project called EURIALO, which is mainly funded by the German Space Agency, DLR.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spire will design a satellite constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) that would track aircraft by determining their exact position based on different times of arrivals of radio frequency (RF) signals. Under this contract, Spire would also launch a demonstration mission, and there is a potential opportunity to be selected to build out the full constellation.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ESA said that current surveillance systems use aircraft self-reported positions from GNSS satellites, and an additional solution will increase reliability and resiliency.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Spire has a newly established German subsidiary and will be opening an office in Munich. The company will lead a consortium of major industry players for the contract, including ESSP (European Satellite Services Provider), a communication, navigation and surveillance (CNS) services provider.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpace-based aircraft tracking and geolocation is the future of air traffic management to ensure safe, secure and sustainable air travel at a global scale,\u201d said Spire CEO Peter Platzer. \u201cWe are honored to be selected by ESA to lead the development of this first-of-its-kind aviation surveillance system demonstrator.\u201d <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded Spire Global a contract to design an aircraft surveillance system. It is a 16 million euro phased contract for a project called EURIALO, which is mainly funded by the German Space Agency, DLR.&nbsp; Spire will design a satellite constellation in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) that would track aircraft by determining [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53044"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}