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ESA signs a deployment deal with ASECNA that brings EGNOS tech to Africa

June 30, 2022

European technology that allows satellite navigation signals to safely guide aircraft down for landing in the majority of Europe’s airports will now also be put to use across Africa and the Indian Ocean. ASECNA, the Agency for Air Navigation Safety in Africa and Madagascar, and ESA have signed an agreement to deploy a Satellite-based Augmentation […]

Filed Under: Agencies, ASECNA, Business Moves, Comms, Contracts, EGNOS, ESA, Galileo, Satellite Navigation, SBAS Tagged With: Featured

Thales Alenia Space’s agreements regarding development of IRIS and CRISTAL for Europe’s Copernicus Earth observation program

June 29, 2022

The CRISTAL satellite will feature, for the first-time, a dual-frequency Ku/Ka-band radar altimeter to measure and monitor sea-ice thickness and overlying snow depth. Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales and Leonardo, signed an amendment to the CRISTAL contract with Airbus Defence and Space, prime contractor for the satellite. The amendment provides for the […]

Filed Under: Climate, Contract Amendment, Copernicus, ESA, Ka-Band, Ku-Band, Manufacturing, Maritime, Mission, News

Iris program’s first airline partner, easyJet, to unlock environmental, operational benefits as first airline partner from Inmarsat, ESA

June 21, 2022

This partnership is the culmination of years of work and over €50 million investment by ESA, Inmarsat and more than 30 partners to develop the Iris program easyJet announced it is the first airline partner of the ground-breaking Iris program by Inmarsat and the European Space Agency (ESA), which uses the latest generation of satellite technology to […]

Filed Under: ESA, Investment Agreement, Weather

A world premiere for Airbus as the company delivers the third radar for the Copernicus satellite

June 21, 2022

Airbus has finished the third instrument for the Sentinel-1 satellite series which includes a new separation mechanism to help the spacecraft avoid space debris. The C-band radar for the Copernicus Sentinel-1C satellite is now en route to Thales Alenia Space facilities in Rome, Italy, where integration and testing will occur. The satellite is scheduled for […]

Filed Under: C-band, ESA, Europe, European Commission, Manufacturing, Manufacturing, Radar, SAR, Satellites, Space Debris

QuadSAT will benefit from ESA’s ARTES Core Competitiveness Program

June 20, 2022

QuadSAT has been awarded an additional 500,000 euros by ESA under ARTES Core Competitiveness program to enter into the product phase development project, thus continuing the successfully concluded technology phase. Within the contracted activity, QuadSAT will further develop, validate and certify its UAV testing system, providing the industry with a solution that enables flexible and […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Antennas, Award, Business Moves, Calibration, Development, ESA, Europe, SATCOM, UAV / RPA

OneWeb, Stellar Blu Solutions deliver LEO inflight connectivity on Boeing 777 test flight

June 15, 2022

The Test Flight Crew simultaneously demonstrated the ability to connect Teams calls, 4K YouTube streaming, Netflix, online VR gaming and Nintendo Switch gaming, among other structured performance tests. OneWeb, the global space-based communications company, together with commercial aviation terminal partner Stellar Blu Solutions** achieved a significant milestone on May 28, when it successfully delivered high-speed, low-latency inflight […]

Filed Under: Antennas, ESA, LEO

ThrustMe wins an ESA GSTP contract to develop + qualify an electric propulsion system

June 14, 2022

ThrustMe has been awarded an ESA GSTP contract to develop and qualify the electric propulsion system NPT30-I2-1.5U. ThrustMe technology will integrate the GomSpace lead technology demonstration GOMX-5 mission — the satellite will be equipped with several advanced payloads and ThrustMe will provide the maneuverability for orbit raising and end-of-life disposal. During the last few years, […]

Filed Under: Agencies, Business Moves, Contracts, Countermeasures, Electric Propulsion, ESA, Europe, Featured, France, In-Space Demo, LEO, SmallSat Tagged With: Featured

ST Engineering iDirect Achieves ESA certification for aerospace manufacturing capabilities

June 14, 2022

The spaceflight industry planted a new flag in Belgium as ST Engineering iDirect announced that the company will be manufacturing components used in flight systems for spacecraft to European Cooperation for Space Standardization (ECSS) standards at their Manufacturing Competence Center (MCC) in Erpe-Mere, Belgium. Following the stringent certification process by the European Space Agency (ESA), […]

Filed Under: Agencies, ESA, Europe, Flight Systems, Manufacturing, Repair, Spacecraft, Testing, United Kingdom (UK)

UK Satnav signal generated in new test by Inmarsat, Goonhilly and GMVNSL will provide safety-critical capabilities

June 13, 2022

The signal, being broadcast in coordination with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union Space Program Agency (EUSPA), is now stable and operational, enabling on-going testing and validation by industry, regulators, and users.  An Inmarsat-led team of companies in the UK has begun broadcasting a satellite navigation […]

Filed Under: ESA, FAA, Galileo, GPS, LEO, satBroadcasting, Satellite Navigation, Signaling, Space Safety, Testing, Weather

Latest public challenge from ESA… teach an Earth-observing satellite to know what it sees

May 31, 2022

For decades Earth observation satellites have been monitoring the ever-changing home planet; the next step is to enable them to recognize what they see. The latest public challenge for the machine learning community from ESA’s Advanced Concepts Team is to train satellite software to identify features within the images it acquires — with the winning team getting the […]

Filed Under: Contest, Earth Observation (EO), ESA, SmallSat, Training

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