With the European satnav community gathering at ESA’s ESTEC in the Netherlands for the annual edition of the European Navigation Conference (ENC), this year hosted by the Netherlands Institute of Navigation (NIN) around the theme of resilience, ESA provided an update during yesterday's opening session on the development of Galileo Second Generation and invited all industrial partners that act as Primes in G2 activities: Thales Alenia Space (Italy), Airbus Defence & Space (Germany), GMV (Spain), Thales Alenia Space (France), Thales Six GTS (France), Tecnobit (Spain), Leonardo (Italy) and Safran Electronics & Defence – Navigation & Timing (France).

Finally, Thales Alenia Space (Italy), Airbus Defence & Space (Germany) and Thales Six GTS (France) representatives were present to sign four contracts for system engineering and technical assistance (SETA), gathering key European experts to provide assistance to ESA in its role as system prime in areas such as Engineering, Signal and Performance, Assembly Integrity and Verification and Security and PRS.