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ESA is offering European satellite operators a unique opportunity to obtain ownership of its Artemis telecoms satellite. ESA is organising visits both to Fucino and Redu to allow the bidders to evaluate the Artemis operational environment. The visit to the Fucino facility is scheduled for 4 February.
ESA is offering European satellite operators a unique opportunity to obtain ownership of its Artemis telecoms satellite.
ESA will launch an Open Call For Proposals in March 2011 to support the Alphasat Application Development Initiative. To learn more about this initiative, a special workshop will take place at Inmarsat in London on Wednesday 23 February.
An ESA project supporting the European Maritime Safety Agency´s (EMSA) Blue Belt pilot programme has successfully delivered space AIS data. More than 21,000 ships were detected and 14 million messages were processed during this demonstration.
For the first time, a Galileo payload has been activated directly from the ESA Redu Centre, located in the heart of Belgium´s Ardennes forest.
Another step has been taken towards making Europe an even more efficient competitor in the global satellite telecommunications market, with the testing of the new SmallGEO satellite platform at ESTEC, ESA's testing centre in the Netherlands.
The European Space Agency's Multimedia Van was on display at the ASMS Conference 2003 at ESRIN in Frascati Italy on July 10 and 11 for the first European Satellite UMTS demonstration.
Artemis ion propulsion system
ESA's currently-flying Artemis testbed
ESA's Artemis data relay satellite, controlled from Fucino (Italy) and with its mission control centre and gateway Earth station located at Redu (Belgium), is providing communications between the Jules Verne ATV and the ATV Control Centre in Toulouse (France).