Image
Aéroport international Léopold Sédar Senghor
Follow Us Now
Aéroport Léopold Sédar Senghor, Dakar +221 33 865 40 27 Info@satnav-africa.com

The 1st of June 2022, the First Steering Committee Meeting of the new Programme “Support to Satellite Navigation in Africa-III” took place in Kigali, Rwanda with venue at Serena Hotel and back to back with the continental SBAS CBA Workshop organized by AUC and AFCAC.

SatNav Africa JPO took part in the fifth meeting of the African Air Navigation Services Providers (ANSPs) that was held in Lomé, Togo from 28th March to 2nd April 2022. The main objectives of the meeting were to: review the status of implementation of the recommendations from the last African ANSPs meeting which was held in 2019; analyse the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the provision of air navigation services; identify the African ANSPs’ common challenges, and to agree on priority areas of cooperation.

The NewSpace Africa Conference was a high-level gathering of industry leaders, commercial space companies, investors, and other key stakeholders in the African space and satellite industry. Attended by Semou Diouf (JPO Director), Bakienon Louis (Director of Operations-ASECNA), Alex Wanda (GNSS Expert) and Agnes Kobusinge (GNSS Operations expert), the 3-day conference featured selected keynotes, interactive sessions, panel discussions and offered a platform for business pitches, B2B matchmaking, B2C matchmaking and unique networking opportunities.

The EUSPA and ASECNA through a formal agreement, have been involved in the EGNOS V3 Extension project that aims at extending the foreseen EGNOS V3 services to Africa. This engagement involves the installation of EGNOS Reference stations called Ranging and Integrity Monitoring Stations (RIMS) sites
on the African continent. In Niger, two sites were identified, namely Agadez and Niamey. From 12th February to 11th March 2022, JPO represented by GNSS experts Herbert Ngaya and Alex Wanda provided assistance to ASECNA on behalf of EUSPA by undertaking site surveys in Niger. Specifically, the experts’ participation resulted in the following:

Page 3 of 3

SatNav-Africa JPO

Building together satellite navigation services for Africa 

About Us

LOGO JPO 3

 

Areas of Intervention

GNSS and SBAS

+221 33 865 40 27

Login