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The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) pas...

The European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS) passed a series of international air-traffic flight tests proving that EGNOS-equipped airplanes will make approaches and landings that meet the safety standards governing international air traffic, said the European Space Agency (ESA).…

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EGNOS is expected to be certified in 2008 for life & death uses such as air traffic control, the ESA said. EGNOS is the first stage to the precursor of the troubled Galileo system, it said.