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Big year for European space activities: ESA
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
Europe will expand its space presence this year through missions with a more practical application for Earthlings -- notably the Galileo constellation of naviga...
School's out for ATV training
Jan 14, 2014 (ESA)
This year sees the fifth and last of ESA's Automated Transfer Vehicles leave for the International Space Station. ATV Georges Lemaitre will be launched this sum...
Boeing Completes First 702HP Satellite for Government of Mexico
Jan 10, 2014 (SPX)
Boeing has completed the first of two 702HP (high power) geomobile satellites, Centenario, for Mexico's new Mexsat end-to-end satellite communications system. M...
Express AM5, a New Russian Communication Satellite, Placed into Orbit
Dec 29, 2013 (SPX)
Express AM5, a Russian communication satellite was orbited on 26 December 2013. The Proton M launch vehicle with this satellite aboard blasted off at 14:49:56 M...
Bolivia's telecom satellite fixes position in orbit
Dec 29, 2013 (XNA)
Bolivia's China-made communications satellite has fixed its position in geostationary orbit at 87.2 degrees west longitude, according to the China Great Wall In...
Brazil to auction satellite positions ahead of World Cup
Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil says it will auction four orbital geostationary satellite positions to expand its Internet and telephony services for next year's World Cup. The official...
Bolivia's first telecoms satellite launched from China
Dec 20, 2013 (AFP)
A Chinese rocket launched Bolivia's first telecommunications satellite early Saturday with the president of the South American country declaring it a success. T...
Astrium and GeoNorth sign first ever multi-satellite Direct Receiving Station
Dec 18, 2013 (SPX)
Astrium has signed with GeoNorth for the first multi-mission Direct Receiving Station (DRS), with a unique offering of both high-resolution and very high-resolu...
Bolivia unveils ground control station for Chinese-made satellite
Dec 08, 2013 (XNA)
Bolivian President Evo Morales inaugurated on Monday the first ground control station built to operate and receive data from Chinese-built Tupac Katari satellit...
Industry Associations Seek to Change the Global Conversation About Satellite
Dec 06, 2013 (SPX)
Coordinating an alliance of the world's leading industry trade associations, the Society of Satellite Professionals International has announced the launch of a ...
High Throughput Satellites Expanding into New Markets to Reach $5.6 Billion by 2022
Nov 29, 2013 (SPX)
According to Euroconsult's new research report on High Throughput Satellites, 33 High Throughput Satellite (HTS) systems will be launched between 2014 and 2016,...
European Space Agency announces next space missions
Nov 28, 2013 (UPI)
The European Space Agency says its next two large science missions will study the hot and energetic universe and search for elusive gravitational waves. Both mi...
Brazil confirms satellite deal after US spying outcry
Nov 28, 2013 (AFP)
Brazil's state-owned telecom provider Telebras signed a $560 million contract to deliver a satellite for secure communications on Thursday, following months of ...
ESA launches Swarm research satellites in Russia
Nov 25, 2013 (AFP)
The European Space Agency (ESA) on Friday launched a trio of hi-tech satellites on an unprecedented mission to map anomalies in Earth's magnetic field. The 230-...
New Roscosmos head calls for end to ordering communication satellites abroad
Nov 20, 2013 (Voice of Russia)
Head of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) Oleg Ostapenko has sent a letter to Vice Premier Dmitry Rogozin suggesting giving up the practice of orderi...
COMCAST Renews And Expands Capacity Agreement With SES
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
SES reports that Comcast Wholesale has renewed and expanded key agreements for nearly 650 MHz of C-band capacity to deliver a broad range of content management ...
Space sector calls for action to keep Britain ahead in the global race
Nov 18, 2013 (SPX)
The UK space sector has set out a plan to deliver new jobs and growth for the sector, with a goal of growing the UK share of the global space market to capture ...
First Boeing-built Inmarsat-5 satellite shipped for 2013 launch
Nov 13, 2013 (SPX)
The recent shipment of the first Inmarsat-5 Global Xpress satellite is an important milestone in Boeing's ongoing commitment to providing their global customer ...
First Global Xpress satellite travels from US to Kazakhstan
Nov 13, 2013 (SPX)
Inmarsat reports that the first of its game-changing Global Xpress satellites - designated Inmarsat-5 F1 - has travelled from California to its launch site in K...
Getting more out of your satellite TV
Nov 13, 2013 (ESA)
Thanks to Global Invacom and ESA, you could one day distribute satellite TV programmes to devices around your home via the Internet. Any device with an IP addre...
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