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European Space Agency agrees record budget to meet new challenges
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
The budget is split, with 12.5 billion euros ($14.1 billion) committed for three years and the full 14.4 billion euros over five, representing an increase of so...
ESA and EDA joint research: advancing into the unknown
Nov 28, 2019 (AFP)
Innovation in disaster response Space-based services have fast become essential to Europe's safety and security. In 2017, a previous ESA-EDA Implementing Agreem...
Nanoracks-Italy signs MOUs for partnerships with spin-offs from the University of Piemonte Orientale
Nov 28, 2019 (SPX)
Nanoracks-Italy's mission is to create a sustainable in-space ecosystem with a transdisciplinary global user base. To build on this mission, the Italian Company...
ESA and Luxembourg Space Agency confirm partnership on space resources
Nov 28, 2019 (ESA)
Following the establishment of the SpaceResources.lu initiative in 2016 to promote and develop the research, economic and legal aspects of space resources, ESA ...
Europe faces up to new space challenges
Nov 27, 2019 (AFP)
Ministers of the 22 European Space Agency (ESA) member states gathered in Seville to discuss a request for 14.3 billion euros in funding, some four billion euro...
ESA helps to make urban life smarter
Nov 26, 2019 (ESA)
Some 25 000 people from 700 cities in 140 countries attended the events, where ESA showcased the work of dozens of the companies it is working with on smart cit...
Airbus presents ground-breaking technology for EUTELSAT QUANTUM
Nov 22, 2019 (SPX)
The versatility of its performance represents a step change for communications satellites with a spacecraft able for the first time to adapt to the customers' b...
ITU World Radiocommunication Conference adopts new regulatory procedures for non-geostationary satellites
Nov 21, 2019 (SPX)
The agreement reached at WRC-19 establishes regulatory procedures for the deployment of non-geostationary satellites, including mega-constellations in low-Earth...
Tesla Completes Acquisition of Maxwell Technologies
Nov 19, 2019 (SPX)
The exchange offer expired at 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on Wednesday, May 15, 2019. As of the expiration of the exchange offer, a total of approximately 36,764,...
China sends two global multimedia satellites into planned orbit
Nov 19, 2019 (XNA)
The two global multimedia satellites, KL-a-A and KL-a-B, was launched by Kuaizhou-1A (KZ-1A), a carrier rocket at 6:00 p.m. (Beijing Time). The two satellites a...
Space Talks 2019: bringing space to you
Nov 14, 2019 (ESA)
Space Talks is an awareness campaign run by ESA and partners in Member States to discuss what benefits space brings to European citizens and how it is crucial f...
EU must boost spending in space or be squeezed out: experts
Nov 13, 2019 (AFP)
The experts, including from the UN and the European Commission, said an estimated 60 percent of the world's economy depends directly or indirectly on "space too...
SpaceX faces competitors in race to build Internet-satellite constellation
Nov 11, 2019 (UPI)
The new batch of satellites will bring the Starlink constellation population to 120. As part of its satellite Internet operation, SpaceX plans to launch some 12...
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites with first reused rocket nose
Nov 11, 2019 (SPX)
An hour after the 9:56 a.m. launch, the company showed video of the satellites deploying successfully in orbit. The launch was the first time SpaceX has reused ...
D-Orbit signs contract with OneWeb in the frame of ESA project Sunrise
Oct 30, 2019 (SPX)
Project Sunrise is a public-private partnership (PPP) between OneWeb, currently developing a world-wide communications network based on a proprietary satellite ...
European network of operations centres takes shape
Oct 28, 2019 (SPX)
The European 'Network of Operations Centres' will enable opportunities for joint action, knowledge sharing and technical interchange, and allow engineers and ot...
Space: a major legal void
Oct 27, 2019 (AFP)
SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted this week using a connection provided by the first satellites in his high-speed Starlink constellation, which one day could inc...
SpaceX to launch 42,000 satellites
Oct 23, 2019 (SPX)
SpaceX initially planned to deploy nearly 12,000 satellites, but has now increased this number by 30,000, adding up to 42,000 satellites. The initial 12,000 sat...
Launch of the European AGILE 4.0 research project
Oct 17, 2019 (SPX)
To kick off the project, some 45 participants from partner organisations in Europe, Canada, Brazil and Russia attended the first meeting, held from 17 to 19 Sep...
SpaceX seeking many more satellites for space-based internet grid
Oct 16, 2019 (AFP)
On October 7, the US Federal Communications Commission sent the Geneva-based International Telecommunication Union 20 filings with each one asking permission fo...
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