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CNES awards Thales Alenia Space contract to develop DFMC SBAS prototype

by Olivia Savage

Thales Alenia Space has been awarded a contract by the French Space Agency (Centre national d'études spatiales: CNES) to develop a dual-frequency multi-constellation (DFMC) satellite-based augmentation system (SBAS) prototype, the company announced on 7 February.

The new system will be developed in a similar framework to the next generation of SBAS, such as the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service (EGNOS).

A Thales Alenia Space correspondent told Janes

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