Social distancing app uses space to save lives
24 Apr 2020
A free app that helps people observe social distancing to slow the spread of coronavirus is about to launch.
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New Command and Data Management Unit from Airbus Defence & Space ready for flight
24 Apr 2020
Under ESA’s Neosat Partnership Project, Airbus Defence and Space has developed and qualified a new Command and Data Management Unit (CDMU), covering the needs for the full Eurostar Neo platform product range and potential platform derivatives. With the successful qualification of this key spacecraft unit, ESA Telecoms’ Partnership Projects demonstrates its ability to federate industry around large scale programmes to improve competitiveness.
UK launches space-based response to Covid-19 pandemic
27 Apr 2020
Some £2.6 million to develop space-enabled technology and services that can strengthen the NHS’s response to coronavirus has been launched today by the UK Space Agency in collaboration with ESA.
Opportunity: Pooling and Sharing Interfaces Definition
22 Sep 2021
Our society and economy are increasingly dependent on secure telecommunications networks. These networks are required for the secure operation of critical infrastructures, governmental services or in transport.
Opportunity: Space Systems for Safety and Security (4S) User Studies
12 Nov 2020
Our society and economy are increasingly dependent on secure telecommunications networks. These networks are required for the secure operation of critical infrastructures, governmental services or in transport.
Opportunity: Next Generation SATCOM European Infrastructure system study
23 Mar 2020
Our society and economy are increasingly dependent on secure telecommunications networks. These networks are required for the secure operation of critical infrastructures, governmental services or in transport.
OneWeb launches 34 more satellites
16 Mar 2020
Communications company OneWeb has added a further 34 satellites to its proposed constellation of 650, taking the total number launched so far to 40.
HILINK – the high-speed bridge between ground and payload
3 Mar 2020
In Star Trek, ‘subspace’ or faster-than-light (FTL) communications are a means of instantly establishing contact with people and places light years away. While FTL only exists on the Enterprise, elsewhere in the universe anything which can improve the speed of a spacecraft’s communications is desirable. This is especially the case where control of the payload, the satellite’s precious cargo, is concerned.
Eurostar Neo completes first half of its Mechanical Qualification campaign
27 Feb 2020
As part of Neosat, one of ESA's Artes Partnership Projects, the Airbus Eurostar Neo platform began its mechanical qualification test campaign at the end of 2019.
Eurostar Neo on the move
23 Mar 2020
Airbus Defence and Space makes its first shipment of Eurostar Neo flight hardware out of its Stevenage Factory. The massive Communications Module, or CM, is now in its Portsmouth site, where it will be equipped with communications equipment.