Industrial and commercial agreement between Alcatel Space and Astrium for AlphaBus
15 Dec 2010
The two major satellite manufacturers Alcatel Space and Astrium, made the announcement jointly from the European Space Agency (ESA) pavilion of the Paris event. Pascale…
Picture perfect with DVB-S2
09 Dec 2010
DVB-S2 is version 2 of the satellite delivered Digital Video Broadcast (DVB) standard. Introduced in 2003, DVB-S2 offers an increased data rate compared to the…
Successful test campaigns for DVB-S2
06 Dec 2010
In-depth and extensive verification and optimisation by satellite of the many new features present in the DVB-S2 standard were performed. These new features include among…
Hylas-1 in orbit brings Europe broadband from space
29 Nov 2010
Owned and operated by Avanti Communications plc of the UK, and with its key payload constituents developed by EADS Astrium in the framework of ESA’s…
Aviation stakeholders begin scrutinising system design options
17 Nov 2010
The Review Board will be scrutinising whether the designs proposed by the ANTARES team are technically sound, and whether ANTARES is sufficiently mature to start…
New website for Hylas-1 launch
16 Nov 2010
Other special areas include information about the Hylas-1 mission, about the launch itself and a section for images of the Hylas-1 spacecraft. You can visit…
Development of Alphabus, the new line of platforms for high-power satellites
28 Oct 2010
The contract was signed by the European Space Agency (ESA), the Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales (CNES), EADS Astrium and Alcatel Space. It marks the start…
Final Reports for Alphasat TDP Phase-A now available
28 Oct 2010
The eight TDP Executive Final reports were delivered to ESA during a four-day series of presentations. TDPs are ‘piggy-back’, non-operational payloads and were proposed to…
Hylas-1 readied for launch from Europe´s Spaceport
20 Oct 2010
The Antonov An-124 cargo jetliner bringing Hylas-1 from Bangalore, India, touched down at Rochambeau airport near the capital Cayenne late in the evening of 11…
Alphabus: shocked but not stirred
15 Oct 2010
The end results of this shock testing campaign show that Alphabus fully complies with the launch environment requirement. Its compliance status is considered similar or…