The SmallGEO – Hispasat AG1 satellite: ready for testing
19 Aug 2014
SmallGEO is a small, general-purpose geostationary satellite platform that will give European industry the opportunity to play a significant role in the commercial telecom market.…
ESA gives SAT-AIS a boost
24 Jul 2014
Large vessels and all passenger ships irrespective of size are mandated by the International Maritime Organization to carry Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment. It transmits…
HYDRA, the multi-headed star tracker
04 Jul 2014
Sodern, a French company which specialises in space instrumentation and optics, was one of the first suppliers of compact autonomous star trackers, taking advantage of…
Two ARTES brochures updated
02 Jul 2014
The ESA ARTES Programme brochure explains in a nutshell what ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme is all about. You will learn about the basic…
World Cup United: how satellites make football a truly global game
15 Jun 2014
Thousands of fans may enjoy the football in person, but it’s estimated that over 3.2 billion of us will catch some of the live TV…
ASTRIUM’s Ku-band feed chain: a commercial success
03 Jun 2014
Why did ASTRIUM decide to develop its own Ku-band feed chain rather than simply purchase the unit from another supplier? We developed our own Ku-band…
Digital Society and Space Applications 2014
26 May 2014
Conference website and programme: Digital Society and Space Applications
Industry Space Days 2014
22 May 2014
For more information, see the Industry Space Days website.
On the lookout for landslides
21 May 2014
To answer these questions, two feasibility studies have recently been completed within the framework of ESA’s ARTES 20 programme. The goal of the Live Land…
1964-2014: fifty years of European cooperation in space
21 May 2014
The joint European space effort was officially born in 1964. In the late 1940s and 1950s, European integration in advanced scientific and technological developments remained…