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ABS-3A Satellite Enters Commercial Service
Sep 13, 2015 (SPX)
The revolutionary ABS-3A satellite is now in full commercial use. The satellite started service on 31st August 2015 to serve the Americas, Africa, Europe and th...
SSL delivers high performance broadband satellite to launch base
Aug 31, 2015 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral reports that a high performance satellite designed and built for Australia's new NBN broadband network has arrived at the European Spaceport...
ESA Chief Warns Not to Politicize Partnership With Russian Space Program
Aug 29, 2015 (Sputnik)
The ongoing crisis in ties between Russia and the West should not tarnish their cooperation when it comes to space exploration, according to Johann-Dietrich" cl...
ESO and ESA Directors General sign Cooperation Agreement
Aug 25, 2015 (ESA)
On 20 August 2015 the Director General of ESO, Tim de Zeeuw, and the Director General of ESA, Johann-Dietrich Woerner, signed a cooperation agreement between th...
ESA's next astronaut to go into space arrives at launch site
Aug 20, 2015 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Soyuz spacecraft commander Sergei Volkov and Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov arrived in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, yesterday. This is...
Space sector heads to US on major growth mission
Aug 14, 2015 (SPX)
Nine UK space companies are in the US on a trade mission to boost investment of proprietary equipment. It will feature some of the most exciting British compani...
Tracking spacecraft through the cosmos contest: enter and win
Aug 01, 2015 (ESA)
Musicians, composers and audio buffs are invited to help celebrate 40 years of ESA's tracking station network. Create some truly cosmic sound and you may win im...
SSL delivers its 50th satellite for Intelsat to launch base in Kourou
Jul 27, 2015 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral, LLC reports that the Intelsat 34 satellite, designed and built for Intelsat S.A (NYSE: I), has arrived at the European Spaceport in Kourou,...
ESTEC opens up: visit Europe's largest place for space this October
Jul 01, 2015 (ESA)
Europe's largest place for space is little visited, but hugely influential: this October you get the chance to see for yourself. ESA's technical centre ESTEC is...
SAARC satellite to be launched by December 2016: ISRO
Jul 01, 2015 (IANS)
India will launch a dedicated satellite for the eight SAARC countries by December 2016 to provide a range of public services, space agency chief AS Kiran Kumar ...
European space industry collaborates with ESA for the future
Jul 01, 2015 (ESA)
More than 80 companies from ESA Member States met recently to begin discussing new models of collaboration to reinforce European space industry's presence in th...
Bolivia's Chinese-made satellite brings in 16 mln USD
Jun 28, 2015 (XNA)
Bolivia's Chinese-made Tupac Katari satellite has generated 16 million U.S. dollars of income in a little more than a year in orbit, the Bolivian News Agency (A...
CDF Studies three candidates for ESA's next medium-class science mission
Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)
Exoplanets, plasma physics and the X-ray Universe are the topics chosen by ESA to be considered for the fourth medium-class mission in its Cosmic Vision science...
Europe teams up for next-gen mission control software
Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)
Together with national space agencies and industry, ESA is working to develop next-generation software for spacecraft control and monitoring. The initiative is ...
ESA's parabolic flight opportunities for students restart
Jun 25, 2015 (ESA)
The ESA Education Office's 'Fly Your Thesis!' programme is back, after having a short break of three years. The first new flight campaign is planned for late 20...
First woman to head a major German research facility
Jun 22, 2015 (SPX)
Pascale Ehrenfreund, currently Research Professor of Space Policy and International Affairs at the Space Policy Institute in Washington, is the new Chair of the...
From ESA: more than 300 new companies
Jun 22, 2015 (ESA)
ESA's business incubators hit a milestone this month: they have now fostered 300 start-up companies - and more are joining all the time. Thanks to innovations f...
Airbus DS to build OneWeb satellite constellation
Jun 16, 2015 (SPX)
Airbus Defence and Space, the world's second largest space company, announced that it has been selected by OneWeb Ltd. as its industrial partner for the design ...
Sentinel-2A sealed from view
Jun 14, 2015 (ESA)
As preparations for the launch of Sentinel-2A continue on track, the team at Europe's Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana has said farewell to the satellite as i...
New satellite for unprecedented Earth monitoring
Jun 14, 2015 (ESA)
Sentinel-2A, the first optical imaging satellite in the EU's Copernicus programme, is set for launch from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana at 01:52 GMT 23 Ju...
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