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  • The EC VP, who is in charge of industrial policy in Brussels, called Egnos the "father" of Galileo.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Egnos, died in Johannesburg on Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at the age of 90.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • In the apartheid years, Egnos performed at the legendary Dorkay

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Egnos wrote these numbers in the early seventies, intending them to be sung by Eartha Kitt on her tour to South Africa.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • A memorial service for Egnos will be held at Temple Emanuel,

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Kitt never performed the numbers and Egnos then wrote the hit musical Ipi Ntombi (Where are the girls?) together with her daughter Gail Lakier.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2003

  • Egnos also transmits integrity messages, or warnings, if there is a major problem in the sat-nav process.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Search and rescue helicopters are likely to use Egnos for very precise positioning in bad weather.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Antonio Tajani, Vice-President of the European Commission, made the Egnos announcement in London.

    BBC News - Home 2011

  • Big airliners landing at major international airports typically rely on ground technologies to guide them to a runway, but Egnos is likely to help with some final approach phases and in improving aircrafts' positioning en route.

    BBC News - Home 2011

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