Forging closer ties

ESA and the SESAR Joint Undertaking signed a memorandum of cooperation on 15 September 2016 to work more closely in the modernisation of air traffic management through satellite-based communications.

The memorandum of cooperation will foster even closer ties between their respective technical programmes and align key milestones.

ESA’s Iris programme is part of the long-term modernisation of air traffic management through air–ground communication via satellite as part of Europe’s greater plan to make our skies safer.

Pictured signing: Magali Vaissiere, ESA’s Director of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications, and Florian Guillermet, Executive Director of the SESAR JU.