AmerHis, first switchboard in space to be launched
27 May 2009
The launch will be carried out from the International Baïkonour Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on 5 August 2004 aboard a Proton Breeze/M launch vehicle. The launch of the AmerHis payload…
SkyPlexNet aiding disaster relief
27 May 2009
The ESA Telecom funded project SkyPlexNet made this possible. SkyPlexNet is a relatively simple and low-cost use of On Board Processing technology to avoid centralisation…
Kingston inmedia books success with Instore Digital Media
27 May 2009
"Indigo has been a great success and I’m delighted that we were able to go beyond the research stage, prove the concept to retailers and…
Digital divide: French Senate weighs up satellite solutions
27 May 2009
The information society which has emerged as a result of advances in data transfer technology opens the way for applications which are revolutionising many areas…
Start-up Projects Initiative Workshop Presentations now on-line
27 May 2009
The Start-up Projects Initiative Workshop 2004 was a great success, with around seventy people attending the two-day event. This year’s workshop consisted of 21 presentations based…
FlySafe Final Presentation scheduled for 29 May
26 May 2009
FlySafe aims at establishing a bird-warning system to improve flight safety in northwest Europe for military Air Force operations. FlySafe will deliver a proof-of-concept information…
A step closer to richer satellite multimedia services
26 May 2009
In a ceremony that took place in December last year at the premises of Alcatel Espacio in Madrid, the thermal vacuum chamber that lodged the…
ESA projects demonstrate native IPv6 over DVB-S
26 May 2009
ESA has initiated a number of projects that support the future role of satellite in the Internet. For this event a large number of native…
Project tests Satellite applications at Sea
25 May 2009
Partially funded by ESA, the MeCA project built on the successes of an earlier ESA funded project: MIST (Marine Interactive Satellite Technologies) which brought a…
Agenda now available for Telecom Applications Workshop 2006
18 May 2009
About 120 people are expected to attend the ‘invitation only’ event, which will be held in the Newton Conference Room at the ESTEC facilities in…