For planet earth and beyond
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.
Airbus is developing a ‘Pacis-5’ demonstrator under ESA’s Govsatcom Precursor programme. Pacis-5 kicked-off in June 2017 and will run for two years.
ESA has awarded a contract to Inmarsat, the world’s leading provider of global, mobile satellite communications (satcom), as the prime contractor for the new “Pacis-6” Govsatcom Precursor project under ESA’s ARTES programme.
On 21 November 2017, ESA and an SES-led European consortium agreed to join forces to set up a new platform that will make secure and affordable satcoms available to public users, as part of a Europe-wide push to help governments get the most out of existing systems and services.