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May 11

Europe’s first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraft

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Beluga transporter. Image credits: NASA/Jim Grossmann

Pau Pyrénées in southern France has become Europe’s first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only this highly accurate space navigation signal. (read more)

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