For planet earth and beyond
A powerful consortium consisting of Airbus, Newtec, SES and the University of Luxembourg has demonstrated a new technology that can deliver an improvement of 9 per cent in Satcom data transmission rates within a given bandwidth.
UK Science Minister, Sam Gyimah combined a visit to ECSAT and the Harwell Space cluster last Thursday with the opportunity to meet ESA Astronaut Tim Peake.
Following ESA’s recent agreement with an SES-led consortium to support the Quantum Cryptography Telecommunication System (QUARTZ), SES has announced ten new project partners including universities, research organisations and leading industry partners that have joined the consortium.
The focal point for the development of mobile systems beyond 3G has become the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP).The decisions reached during the last 3GPP plenary meeting in La Jolla (San Diego, US) pave the way for the successful integration of satellites in 5G.
Integrasys has worked with the support of the European Space Agency (ESA) to develop an award-winning solution, ALUSAT.
ESA now welcomes unsolicited proposal submissions covering the whole product development life cycle.
ESA’s laser satellite EDRS-C has settled at its new home in Munich for the last tests before launch. This final set will make sure the satellite and its optical payload can withstand the challenging conditions of lift off and subsequent life in space once launched next year.
For the first time, an ESA-supported nanosatellite, currently being developed in Finland and featuring a Finnish platform and radio transmitter, will send a W-band signal from space to Earth.
2-5 Oct, 2018, ESTEC, Noordwijk (The Netherlands)
The 39th ESA Antenna Workshop will provide an overview on recent and on-going antenna systems and technologies developments for Satellite Applications with particular focus on Multibeam and Reconfigurable Antennas and covering both Space and Ground Segments.
ESA and its partners will investigate how satellites can distribute photon ‘keys’ to help secure encryption.