{"id":3478,"date":"2019-05-13T00:53:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-12T22:53:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2019-05-14T13:49:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-14T11:49:29","slug":"brains-and-brawn-at-wac-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revistaitransporte.com\/brains-and-brawn-at-wac-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Brains and brawn at WAC 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

The annual World ATM Congress (WAC) event plays host to product demonstrations and launches, contract closures and networking opportunities, together with a busy schedule of conferences and high-level meetings. This year, a total of 225 exhibiting companies and 7,500 delegates from 130 countries took part. Every year, the World ATM Congress brings together around a hundred air navigation service providers (ANSPs), product developers, leaders and experts in the aviation industry, government representatives, manufacturers and industry suppliers from around the world.<\/p>\n

Organised by the Civil Air Navigation Services Organisation (CANSO) \u2013of which Enaire (formerly Aena) is a founding member and which brings together air navigation service providers from around the world\u2013 in partnership with the Air Traffic Control Association (ATCA), an association that represents the air traffic control sector, the World Air Traffic Management Congress is an indispensable event that Ineco has been attending for almost 20 years.<\/p>\n

The Galileo system: the brightest star<\/h4>\n

Galileo is the flagship project of European satellite navigation: a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) that will boast a total of 30 satellites by 2020 \u201326 of which are already in orbit\u2013 managed by the European Global Navigation Satellite Systems Agency (GSA). Galileo is compatible and interoperable with systems such as the US\u2019s GPS and Russia\u2019s GLONASS, and will offer an unprecedented improvement in performance in terms of precision, resilience and robustness.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the GSA entrusted its operation and maintenance to a consortium led by Spaceopal for the following 10 years. Spain is part of this consortium, through a group of public enterprises led by Ineco, in partnership with Isdefe and INTA (National Institute of Aerospace Technology). Ineco is in charge of the operation, top level maintenance and management of the hosting services of the European GNSS Service Centre (GSC) located at the INTA\u2019s facilities in Torrej\u00f3n de Ardoz (Madrid).<\/p>\n