EHang Participates in EU satellite-based augmentation systems

EHang will par­tic­i­pate in an EU-fund­ed project, the satel­lite-based aug­men­ta­tion sys­tems (SBAS) adop­tion in mul­ti­copter VTOL air­craft (SAMVA) to deploy Euro­pean Geo­sta­tion­ary Nav­i­ga­tion Over­lay Ser­vice (EGNOS) on eVTOL air­craft oper­a­tions across the con­ti­nent.

Under an ini­tia­tive of the Euro­pean Union Space Pro­gramme (EUSPA), SAMVA focuss­es on imple­ment­ing EGNOS satel­lite-based oper­a­tions on eVTOLs to enhance advanced air mobil­i­ty ser­vices and inte­gra­tion with the U‑Space air­space being devel­oped to man­age unmanned aer­i­al sys­tems.

The project con­sor­tium includes Aero­ports de Catalun­ya, EHang, Pil­do Labs, the Air­ports Region­al Coun­cil, Thales-Ale­nia Space, and Eliance.

For the SAMVA project, Aero­ports de Catalun­ya and EHang plan to estab­lish an Autonomous Aer­i­al Vehi­cle (AAV) oper­a­tional cen­tre at Llei­da-Alguaire air­port to con­duct EH216 flight demon­stra­tions with EGNOS deploy­ment.

This will show­case how EGNOS can sup­port and enhance unmanned air­craft sys­tem traf­fic man­age­ment tasks and AAV urban oper­a­tions. Par­tic­i­pa­tion in SAMVA will enable EHang to explore and expand AAV appli­ca­tion in air­port envi­ron­ments.

EHang Europe and Latin Amer­i­ca chief oper­at­ing offi­cer Vic­to­ria Jing Xiang com­ment­ed: “The SAMVA project will unleash EGNOS capa­bil­i­ties aboard EHang’s EH216 AAV to pro­vide pre­cise nav­i­ga­tion guid­ance and sup­port U‑Space air­space inte­gra­tion.

“Our par­tic­i­pa­tion in this project reflects the mean­ing­ful progress we’ve made over­seas with our strong indus­try-lead­ing tech­nolo­gies as our glob­al foot­print expands. With that, EHang will con­tin­ue to move fur­ther for­ward in the inno­v­a­tive devel­op­ment of safe and sus­tain­able Advanced Air Mobil­i­ty with glob­al part­ners.”

EGNOS pro­vides an aug­men­ta­tion sig­nal to the Glob­al Posi­tion­ing Sys­tem (GPS) Stan­dard Posi­tion­ing Ser­vice (SPS), pro­vid­ing cor­rec­tion data and integri­ty infor­ma­tion for improv­ing posi­tion­ing and nav­i­ga­tion ser­vices over Europe.

EUSPA is the user-ori­ent­ed oper­a­tional Euro­pean Union Agency for the Space Pro­gramme. The agency’s core mis­sion is to imple­ment the EU Space Pro­gramme, and to pro­vide reli­able, safe and secure space-relat­ed ser­vices, max­i­miz­ing their socio-eco­nom­ic ben­e­fits for Euro­pean soci­ety and busi­ness.

EUSPA’s goal is to pro­vide long-term, state-of-the-art safe and secure Galileo and EGNOS posi­tion­ing, nav­i­ga­tion, and tim­ing ser­vices and cost-effec­tive satel­lite com­mu­ni­ca­tions ser­vices for GOVSATCOM, whilst ensur­ing ser­vice con­ti­nu­ity and robust­ness. It also aims to com­mu­ni­cate, pro­mote, and devel­op the mar­ket for data, infor­ma­tion and ser­vices offered by Galileo, EGNOS, Coper­ni­cus and GOVSATCOM.

Ear­li­er this month, EHang signed a Mem­o­ran­dum of Under­stand­ing with Hong Kong-based Air­craft Engi­neer­ing Com­pa­ny HAECO Group to explore advanced air mobil­i­ty.

EHang, HAECO Group Sign MoU to Explore AAM

Last month, EHang Hold­ings EH216 AAV per­formed suc­cess­ful flight demon­stra­tions in Spain under the Euro­pean Union (EU) Air Mobil­i­ty Urban – Large Exper­i­men­tal Demon­stra­tion (AMU-LED) project.

EHang EH216 AAV Com­pletes EU SESAR AMU-LED Project Flight Demon­stra­tions in Spain