Forests and the final frontier

You are jogging through the forest, alone. It is late and you are worried that it is getting dark sooner than you expected. All of a sudden, you trip on a tree root and twist your ankle. The pain is unbearable, you are unable to move and darkness is falling fast. This is your ultimate nightmare. Right?

You are jogging through the forest, alone. It is late and you are worried that it is getting dark sooner than you expected. All of a sudden, you trip on a tree root and twist your ankle. The pain is unbearable, you are unable to move and darkness is falling fast. This is your ultimate nightmare. Right?

Did you know that, if your smartphone is enabled to receive signals from Galileo satellites (Europe’s GPS), emergency responders will be able to locate you more accurately and get to you faster. This is just one of the benefits of Europe’s investment in space that GOPA Com. is helping to promote. At GOPA Com. we have been providing communications support to the GSA, the Agency responsible for the Galileo programme, for most of the Galileo programme’s lifespan.

One particularly successful campaign on which we cooperated was Accuracy Matters #UseGalileo, which is raising awareness about how Galileo is making a real difference in the lives of the over a billion users who have Galileo’s added accuracy in their phones. Thanks to this campaign, more Europeans know that if they fall in the forest, or just get lost in an unfamiliar city, the EU space programme has their back and can point them in the right direction.