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Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers
Jul 07, 2014 (ESA)
The dramatic conclusion to ESA's latest StarTiger project: a 'dropship' quadcopter steers itself to lower a rover gently onto a safe patch of the rocky martian ...
Developing technologies for novel space missions
Jul 07, 2014 (ESA)
A new report, Technological Breakthroughs for Scientific Progress (TECHBREAK), has been published by the European Science Foundation. The European Science Found...
ASC Signal Secures Contracts for 115 Ka-band Gateways and Antennas
Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)
Capping the most successful six months of orders in its history, ASC Signal Corporation has been selected by government and commercial customers around the worl...
SSl Selected to Provide Multi-Mission Satellite to Hispasat Group
Jul 04, 2014 (SPX)
Space Systems/Loral (SSL) has announced that it was selected to provide a multi-mission communications satellite to Spanish satellite operator HISPASAT Group. T...
Ariane 5 launcher integration is on the horizon for ATV Georges Lemaitre
Jun 26, 2014 (ESA)
Europe's fifth, and final, Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for servicing of the International Space Station is ready for integration on its Ariane 5 launcher a...
ADS unveils multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station for GeoNorth
Jun 26, 2014 (SPX)
Airbus Defense and Space and its client GeoNorth have inaugurated the first commercially available multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station (DRS) in the world, ...
Boeing and Global Eagle Entertainment Offer Line-Fit Satellite Connectivity
Jun 24, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing (BA) and Global Eagle Entertainment have signed a new technical services agreement (TSA) to evaluate Global Eagle Entertainment's (GEE) satellite-based c...
Swarm reveals Earth's changing magnetism
Jun 20, 2014 (ESA)
The first set of high-resolution results from ESA's three-satellite Swarm constellation reveals the most recent changes in the magnetic field that protects our ...
Multimedia Services Over MEASAT-5 Showcased At Communicasia
Jun 19, 2014 (SPX)
MEASAT Global Berhad has announced cooperation with Aviindos (M) Sdn. Bhd ("Aviindos"), Maxis Communications Berhad ("Maxis"), and Village Island Asia Pte. Ltd....
Russia to get first private satellite constellation
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
A Russian startup said Wednesday it will launch several satellites in the coming weeks, the country's first private satellite constellation, to offer maritime m...
Bolivia receives China's bidding to build satellite
Jun 10, 2014 (XNA)
The Bolivian Space Agency (ABE) said Thursday that it has received a bidding from China to build an exploration satellite for the country, which would be Bolivi...
Bank on it
Jun 10, 2014 (SPX)
Drawing on their experience building complex software for simulating spaceflight, Portuguese scientists have created a 21st-century way of detecting banking fra...
Space weather report for an alien world
Jun 10, 2014 (ESA)
For the first time, ESA is providing regular space-weather reports for a spacecraft orbiting another planet. When your spacecraft is surfing deep into the atmos...
Alexander's first week in space
Jun 09, 2014 (ESA)
ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst has now spent a week in space on the International Space Station. As he grows accustomed to floating in weightlessness, he has bee...
A Growth Industry in Space
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
Over the past 50+ years the space industry has matured and many space-based applications have been developed. Uses of space can be categorized into three types:...
Telecommunication satellite Eutelsat 3B is taken to target orbit
May 28, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Eutelsat 3B telecommunication satellite, launched with Zenit-3SL carrier under the Sea Launch programme, has been taken to the target orbit, the Russian Space A...
Russian rocket falls back to Earth with super satellite
May 16, 2014 (AFP)
A Russian rocket carrying its most advanced communication satellite to date fell back to Earth minutes after lift-off on Friday in the latest blow to the countr...
Copernicus benefitting society and the environment
May 15, 2014 (ESA)
The financial benefits of the Copernicus programme, as well as opportunities for sustainable economic growth and job creation in Europe, came into focus recentl...
Thales Alenia Space to build Koreasat-7 and Koreasat-5A satellites
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
Thales Alenia Space has announced that it has signed a contract with the Korean satellite service operator KT Sat, subsidiary of KT Corporation, to build two te...
Final ATV assembled for Arianespace Ariane 5 launch
May 13, 2014 (ESA)
The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) for Arianespace's next resupply mission to the International Space Station is standing tall at the Spaceport as preparation...
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