New Partnership Project boosts European competitiveness
A fully reconfigurable, software-defined, standardised satellite for the commercial telecommunications market is under development, as an ESA Partnership Project.
For planet earth and beyond
June 2020
Data-relay satellite ready for service
The second node in the most sophisticated laser communication network ever designed is ready to go into service.
Airbus Ku-band high power feed chains become a bestseller
Launch conditions together with the need to operate at high power levels presented a particular challenge when Airbus Defence and Space engineers – under the ARTES Competitiveness & Growth programme – set about developing a new series of Ku-band antenna feed chains.