ESA supports new ideas with the Initiative For ESA Telecom Newcomers
22 Jun 2012
ESA Telecom has issued an Open Call For Proposals under this new initiative to encourage SMEs to develop and design marketable products for the telecommunications…
Alphabus in Race to the Market
22 Jun 2012
To make this possible, Alphabus began a Phase B in 2002 which included the initiation of over twenty projects as a Preparatory Phase. The results…
GMV – an ESA success story
22 Jun 2012
In 2010, 45 per cent of all commercial telecom satellites launched worldwide use GMV ground systems technology for monitoring and control and/or flight dynamics operations.…
ESA issues new Invitations to Tender for Telemedicine
22 Jun 2012
The first ITT is ‘Management of Medical Emergency for Commercial Aviation’ and calls for a portable telemedicine system which can help diagnosis from on-board civil…
Announcement of Opportunity for industry-initiated Public Private Partnerships for proposed new ARTES 33 element
19 Jun 2012
ESA has implemented several PPPs through its ARTES programme including Amerhis, Alphasat, Small GEO, Hylas, and EDRS. These projects have shown that PPPs are well…
Staying in touch at sea
19 Jun 2012
Increasing demands on day-to-day ship operations require reliable connections regardless of a vessel’s position. Updating weather information, planning routes and boosting crew morale with calls…
ARTES success highlighted in new brochure
15 Jun 2012
The introduction of new technologies, in particular through the ARTES 5 Technologies element, is illustrated. The continuous improvement of products and solutions, thanks to the…
Artemis keeps talking the talk
04 Jun 2012
After almost 11 years in orbit, it is a fact that the Artemis mission has been successfully completed. To meet the demand of its operational…
‘Eye operation´ puts Proba-1 back in business
04 Jun 2012
New software from the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) allows Proba-1 to distinguish between genuine star constellations to measure its pointing direction versus clusters of…
Advanced laser technology on the way to space
30 May 2012
When on 28 November 2014 researchers at ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany began receiving images relayed in nearly real-time from the…