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The OneSat family of geostationary software-defined telecommunications satellites has passed successfully its first qualification review. The first part of the OneSat qualification review has successfully demonstrated the maturity of the various developments to safely proceed towards the start of satellite integration activities.
4S leads activities in the development of new technologies, products, systems and services related to its main themes, through invitations to tender (defined in the 4S Workplan), generic open call, and specific announcements of opportunities.
These opportunities can be either fully-funded or co-funded up to a share of the total cost of the activity.
The Atlas extension to the ARTES Competitiveness & Growth (C&G) Component of the ARTES Core Competitiveness (CC) Programme has been introduced in 2013.
The first satellite to be built under ESA’s Eurostar Neo programme has launched.
The satellite – called Eutelsat Hotbird 13F – was developed and built by satellite manufacturer Airbus for satellite operator Eutelsat. It is based on the Eurostar Neo telecommunications satellite platform, developed under an ESA Partnership Project with Airbus designed to foster innovation and competitiveness in the European space industry.
