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Special ESA prize to be awarded in European Satellite Navigation Competition

3 June 2009

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Galileo final constellation of 30 satellites

The final constellation of Europe's Galileo satellite navigation system will consist of 30 satellites

Credits: ESA-J. Huart

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uropean Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2008 winners

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Winners, special prize sponsors, regional organisers and participants are here seen at the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2008 award ceremony 21 October 2008 in Munich, Germany.

Credits: Simone Hörmann / Anwendungszentrum

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Frank M. Salzgeber, Pierre Salmona and Thorsten Rudolph

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The winner of ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme’s special topic prize in the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) 2008 is Pierre Salmona from the French start-up company, Locus, for a mobile phone-based museum guide which by combining WiFi and stationary pseudo-satellites, so-called pseudolites, allows indoor navigation. Here he is seen with Frank M. Salzgeber, Head of the ESA’s Technology Transfer Programme Office (left) and Thorsten Rudolph, Director of Anwendungszentrum GmbH in Oberpfaffenhofen and the instigator of ESNC.

Credits: Simone Hörmann / Anwendungszentrum

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC)

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European Satellite Navigation Competition 2009

The European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) in its sixth year is again seeking quick-to-market innovative ideas for the use of satellite navigation in non-space businesses. Under the patronage of the Bavarian State Ministry for Economics, Infrastructure, Transport and Technology and with the support of the German Aerospace Center (DLR), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the ICT trade show SYSTEMS, Anwendungszentrum GmbH Oberpfaffenhofen gave the starting shot for an international ideas competition in 2004, which aimed at the early development of applications that are based on satellite navigation systems available today, like for example GPS, and which should gain a significant enhancement from Galileo.

Having begun with three partner regions, this year’s ESNC will be held in 17 high-tech regions all over the world: Baden-Württemberg, Bavaria, Hesse, Lower Saxony and North Rhine-Westphalia (all in Germany), Nice/Sophia Antipolis (France), Prague (Czech Republic), South Holland (The Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Lombardy (Italy), Australia, Taiwan, and Great Britain, as well as newcomers Øresund (Denmark/Sweden), Gipuzkoa (Spain), Switzerland, and Israel.

For more information, visit www.galileo-masters.eu.

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