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Space technology to help the blind
 
30 December 2002

Space technology can be used to help the blind to find their way around and to be more independent.

Credits: AP Photo/Ed Andrieski
 
 
An ESA project is using Egnos and Sisnet navigation technologies in a personal navigator for blind people developed by GMV Sistemas, Spain and ONCE, a Spanish organisation for the blind.
 
 
An ESA project is using Egnos and Sisnet navigation technologies in a personal navigator for blind people developed by GMV Sistemas, Spain and ONCE, a Spanish organisation for the blind.
 
 
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