{"id":84957,"date":"2011-04-22T21:41:03","date_gmt":"2011-04-22T13:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/esa-contracts-thales-alenia-space-for-egnos-upgrades\/"},"modified":"2011-04-22T21:41:03","modified_gmt":"2011-04-22T13:41:03","slug":"esa-contracts-thales-alenia-space-for-egnos-upgrades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/esa-contracts-thales-alenia-space-for-egnos-upgrades\/","title":{"rendered":"ESA Contracts Thales Alenia Space for EGNOS Upgrades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n[04-22-11] <strong>Thales Alenia Space <\/strong>signed a 54.5 million euro ($79.6 million) contract with the <strong>European Space Agency <\/strong>(ESA) to supply a new version of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), Thales announced April 21.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 28-month contract will see Thales incorporate improvements for EGNOS\u2019 enhanced operability and upgrade critical subsystems that had become obsolete and provide significant improvements in the extension of the system.<br \/>\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The European Union budget is financing the EGNOS project alongside the Galileo position system with 3.4 billion euros ($4.57 billion) through 2013. It is estimated that 1.9 billion euros ($2.56 billion) will be necessary to complete the Galileo infrastructure from 2014 to 2020, bringing the total cost of Galileo to more than 5 billion euros ($6.73 billion). The operational costs of Galileo and EGNOS together are estimated to be 800 million euros ($1.07 billion) annually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[04-22-11] Thales Alenia Space signed a 54.5 million euro ($79.6 million) contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to supply a new version of the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay System (EGNOS), Thales announced April 21. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The 28-month contract will see Thales incorporate improvements for EGNOS\u2019 enhanced operability and upgrade critical subsystems that had become [&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":[],"class_list":["post-84957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84957"}],"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=84957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84957\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}