07.07.2022
Smart competition for clever navigation at NAVISP Industry Days
Europe’s leading companies and research institutes working on positioning, navigation, and timing (PNT) technologies met at ESA’s technical heart in the Netherlands in mid-June for this year’s NAVISP Industry Days, devoted to the latest developments in the Agency’s Navigation Innovation and Support Programme.
NAVISP is ESA’s programme focused on navigation technologies beyond Galileo and EGNOS, with many of the same engineers that led the development of Europe’s own satnav constellation working with European industry and academia on exciting new concepts.
Around 130 people participated in the two-day event, which covered dozens of the more than 200 NAVISP projects embarked upon to date. As well as attending presentations, participants had the opportunity to meet and talk shop in the exhibition area showing off products and hardware, from an improved accuracy smartphone sattnav board to smart drones for navigation data gathering.