Govsatcom – ESA and Space Industry supporting a European solution
12 Apr 2016
At an event held on 5 April at ESA Headquarters in Paris, more than eighty high-level representatives from the European space industry and government discussed…
Short course satellite communications
05 Apr 2016
ESA’s Directorate of Telecommunications and Integrated Applications (TIA) is once again co-organising with the University of Oxford Department for Continuing Education a short course in…
Electric propulsion gets a boost from TAS
29 Mar 2016
Thales Alenia Space Belgium (TAS-B) has announced that its PPU Mk3 power supply for plasma thrusters has now been qualified. The new unit is designed…
Pioneer: Announcement of Opportunity
23 Mar 2016
In-orbit demonstration/validation (IOD/IOV) is a powerful enabler for the introduction of innovative Satcom products and services into a highly demanding environment, where acquired flight heritage…
6th Annual ARTES Applications Workshop
21 Mar 2016
2016 Industry Space Days
20 Mar 2016
Newtec introduces industry’s first DVB-S2X VSAT modem
17 Mar 2016
Newtec (BE) has announced the satellite industry’s first VSAT modem to support DVB-S2X, the new transmission standard that was adopted in 2014. The company presented…
TAS developing a reconfigurable antenna
15 Mar 2016
Reflector antennas are of paramount importance for satellite communication systems since they act as a mirror to amplify the signal power radiated from or to…
Payload technologies and products in the spotlight at ESTEC
09 Mar 2016
On 16-19 February 2016, the Final Presentation Days for Payload Technologies and Products took place at ESTEC, ESA’s technical facility located in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.…
Space keeps up safe as air travel rises
08 Mar 2016