ASECNA (Agency for Aerial Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar) is an air traffic control agency and an international public organization composed of 19 member states, including 17 African states and France. ASECNA's main mission is to provide air navigation services, aeronautical information services, and aeronautical meteorology services within a large airspace of over 16 million square kilometers. They are also working towards the development of SBAS (Satellite-Based Augmentation System) services for aviation in Africa in collaboration with partners like NIGCOMSAT and Thales Alenia Space.
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ASECNA signed an international agreement with the European Union on satellite navigation in 2018 and is benefiting from funding and access to EGNOS technology.
ESA will provide technical support to ASECNA based on Europe’s EGNOS technology and using the Galileo satellites.
ASECNA provides air navigation services within an airspace of 16.5 million sq. km divided into six flight information regions.
Louis Bakienon, Director of the ASECNA SBAS Program, signed an international cooperation agreement with Josef Aschbacher, ESA Director General, at ESA’s offices in Paris.
ASECNA and ESA signed an agreement to deploy a Satellite-based Augmentation System (SBAS) across a service region of more than 16.5 million sq. km.
The system prototype for the AFI SBAS utilizes the SAGAIE network deployed by the French space agency CNES and ASECNA with support from Thales Alenia Space as the reference stations network.