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ESA Innovation Prize winnersof the European Satellite Navigation Competition 2013from German start-up company Sesovo Navipal. From left: Manuel Martín Salvador (Sesovo Navipal), Ulrich Straus (Sesovo Navipal), Jan Walter Schroeder (Sesovo Navipal), Frank M. Salzgeber (Head of ESA's Technology Transfer Programme Office), Ulrike Daniels (Business Development at AZO) and Thorsten Rudolph (Managing Director of Application Center for Satellite Navigation Oberpfaffenhofen AZO, the instigator of ESNC). The fourth Sesovo Navipal team member Rashid Bakirov was not at the Award event.