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ESA supports Loft Orbital’s YAM-8 launch through upgraded platform

Loft Orbital, with a European Space Agency (ESA)-funded upgraded Airbus Arrow 150 platform on board, has successfully launched its Longbow YAM-8 satellite on Friday 14 March at 23:43 PT (Saturday 15 March 07:43 CET) on a Transporter-13, taking place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, United States. The upgrades to the platform were supported under an ESA Pioneer Partnership Project: the In Orbit Demonstrator by Airbus (IODA).

ESA and ITU collaborate to advance in radio spectrum sustainability

The European Space Agency (ESA) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), through a Joint Statement signed at Mobile World Congress 2025, in Barcelona, Spain, agreed to cooperate and collaborate in fostering a more sustainable and responsible use of radio spectrum resources for satellite systems.

How to extend the lifespan of satellites and enabling cost efficiency through AI software

AI investment is booming globally, ESA is helping drive the ongoing transformation, enabled by technological innovations in the satellite telecommunication operations, through strategic research and development activities. A recent example is the Context Aware Spacecraft Telemetry Checking (CASTeC) platform, developed through ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems’ (ARTES) Competitiveness & Growth programme.