European space company Isar Aerospace has closed a U.S.$17 million Series A investment round led by Earlybird and Airbus Ventures to develop low-cost launch vehicles dedicated to deploying and resupplying satellite constellations.
Read More »German-Made Astronaut Assistant CIMON-2 Is At The International Space Station
A new CIMON for the International Space Station (ISS): CIMON-2 (Crew Interactive MObile companioN) lifted off on its journey into space on 5 December 2019.
Read More »UAE’s Thuraya And Airbus Demonstrate Aerial Surveillance Capabilities At Dubai Airshow
Thuraya, the mobile satellite services subsidiary of the UAE-based Al Yah Satellite Communications Company (Yahsat), in partnership with Airbus, a global leader in aeronautics, space and related services has successfully conducted live screenings of a demonstrative aerial surveillance mission taking place in Germany, from an airborne Airbus H145 helicopter equipped with a communication system developed by SCOTTY to the Dubai Airshow visitors, utilising Thuraya’s L-band satellite network.
Read More »Airbus Presents Ground-Breaking Technology For EUTELSAT QUANTUM
Airbus, ESA and Eutelsat have presented the new ground breaking multibeam active antenna payload at Airbus in Madrid. Airbus' ELectronically Steerable Antenna+ (ELSA+) is a first for commercial satellite communications in Europe.
Read More »Malaysia’s MEASAT Selects Arianespace For MEASAT-3D SATCOM Launch
Arianespace and MEASAT Global Berhad (MEASAT), the leading Malaysian satellite operator, has announced the signature of a launch services contract for MEASAT-3D.
Read More »Philippines To Use UK’s Surrey Satellite’s NovaSar-1 Radar Imagery
Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) has signed an agreement with Republic of the Philippines' Department of Science and Technology-Advanced Science and Technology Institute (DOST-ASTI) to provide a share of the tasking and data acquisition services from NovaSAR-1, the innovative small S-Band radar satellite launched into a 580km sun synchronous orbit in September 2018.
Read More »Sudan’s First Satellite SRSS-1 Launched By China
Sudan's first satellite, the Sudan Remote Sensing Satellite (SRSS)-1, was successfully launched in the morning on 3 November 2019 by a Chinese Long March 4B satellite launch vehicle from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in China’s northern Shanxi Province, according to reporting in Space in Africa.
Read More »Egypt’s TIBA-1 Communications Satellite Prepped For November Launch By Arianespace
Processing is now underway with the TIBA-1 satellite passenger for Arianespace’s next dual-payload Ariane 5 mission, which is scheduled for a November liftoff from the Spaceport in French Guiana.
Read More »Race Is On To Supply High-Resolution Earth Observation Satellites To Vietnam
Earth observation satellite manufacturers from France, Israel, Japan, Russia, and the United States are vying to build a high-resolution imaging satellite for Vietnam, according to French online publication Intelligence Online.
Read More »Egypt’s TIBA-1 Military Communications Satellite Headed For Guiana Space Centre Launch
TIBA-1, the communications satellite for the Government of Egypt developed by Airbus and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) left the Airbus Defence and Space clean rooms in Toulouse
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