{"id":5709,"date":"2025-04-21T17:50:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/thales-alenia-space-securess-e51-million-contract-to-extend-egnos-service-life\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T17:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T09:50:46","slug":"thales-alenia-space-securess-e51-million-contract-to-extend-egnos-service-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/thales-alenia-space-securess-e51-million-contract-to-extend-egnos-service-life\/","title":{"rendered":"Thales Alenia Space Securess \u20ac51 Million Contract to Extend EGNOS Service Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\" itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1745221746719_638808185472696077.png\" class=\"imageload removeImageattr fr-dib\" width=\"711\" height=\"376\" alt=\"Thales Alenia Space Securess \u20ac51 Million Contract to Extend EGNOS Service Life\" data-original=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1745221746719_638808185472696077.png\" style=\"\"><meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/cdn.satnow.com\/news\/1745221746719_638808185472696077.png\"><meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"711\"><meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"376\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thales Alenia Space<\/strong>, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, has signed a new contract worth \u20ac51 million with the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) to extend the operational life of the European Satellite-Based Augmentation System (EGNOS). Named LIFEX 1 (Life Extension Phase 1), this contract will ensure that EGNOS V2 continues to provide reliable, secure, and high-performance navigation services for Europe\u2019s aviation, maritime, land transport, mapping, and agricultural sectors beyond 2028.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">EGNOS system enhances the accuracy, reliability, and integrity of positioning signals by improving the performance of Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS), such as GPS and, in the future, Galileo. As part of this contract, Thales Alenia Space will address EGNOS V2 critical system upgrades and infrastructure improvements, reinforcing the system\u2019s resilience and operational durability. These updates will focus on enhancing security measures, modernizing components, and ensuring the ongoing reliability of EGNOS\u2019s \u201cSafety of Life\u201d service, which plays a key role in aviation, enabling accurate approaches at European airports without requiring ground guidance systems. Operational since 2011, this service has significantly improved operational safety and efficiency for the greater benefit of European operators.<\/p>\n<div class=\"widget-layout related-content-also-read-box my-3\">\n<h4 class=\"mb-0\">Also Read: What is a GNSS Simulator?<\/h4>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201dEGNOS is a key asset for Europe, ensuring safer and more efficient transport across multiple sectors. This contract will secure the extension of the system in operations, making the service more robust to support a growing number of users and strengthening the European Union\u2019s satellite navigation capabilities,\u201d said <strong>Rodrigo da Costa<\/strong><strong>, Executive Director of EUSPA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are very proud to support our client EUSPA in extending the lifetime of an operational system that plays a key role in European navigation every day. With this latest contract, Thales Alenia Space demonstrates its European and export leadership in satellite navigation and contributes to the success of the EGNOS system in Europe,\u201d said <strong>David Philipona<\/strong><strong>, Vice-President Navigation for Thales Alenia Space<\/strong> in France. \u201cThis is in line with Thales Alenia Space&#8217;s commitment to provide reliable and innovative navigation solutions to ensure safer and more efficient transport across the continent and the world.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thales Alenia Space, a joint venture between Thales and Leonardo, has signed a new contract worth \u20ac51 million with the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) to extend the operational life of the European Satellite-Based Augmentation System (EGNOS). Named LIFEX 1 (Life Extension Phase 1), this contract will ensure that EGNOS V2 continues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[175,38,20],"class_list":["post-5709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-gnss-simulators","tag-leo","tag-satellite"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709"}],"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=5709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5709\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}