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Airbus to build multimission satellite for MEASAT

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – Airbus has been selected by MEASAT Global Berhad, the leading Malaysian operator, to build MEASAT-3d, a new multimission telecommunications satellite to replace capacity and augment its core business in Malaysia, Asia, Middle East...
Airbus EDRS C satellite

Launch of the second SpaceDataHighway satellite

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – The EDRS-C satellite, the second node of the SpaceDataHighway network (also known as EDRS), will be launched into geostationary orbit at 31° East on 24 July 2019 by an Ariane 5 launcher.
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2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards open for nominations

May 6th, 2019 Posted in News
6 May 2019 – The Arthur C. Clarke Foundation is pleased to announce the opening of nominations for the 2019 Sir Arthur Clarke Awards open today. The British Interplanetary Society has again been selected by the Foundation to organise and manage th...
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NASA awards $608 million contract to PAE-KBR Joint Venture

April 29th, 2019 Posted in News
29 April 2019 – NASA recently announced it awarded the Base Operations, Spaceport Services contract at the Kennedy Space Center to the joint venture PAE-SGT Partners LLC, known as PSP. The firm fixed-price contract with a potential value of $608.7...
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Space tech to fight bowel cancer and exposure to air pollution

April 29th, 2019 Posted in News
29 April 2019 – New health technologies inspired by working in space will provide real-time diagnosis of bowel cancer and freedom from air pollution. The projects are being funded with a share of £5m by the UK Space Agency to mark the 70th bir...
NASA InSight lander

First ‘Marsquake’ captured by UK sensors

April 23rd, 2019 Posted in News
23 April 2019 – The NASA InSight lander, which is supported by the UK Space Agency, has recorded its first likely ‘marsquake’. Seismic vibrations of the Martian surface were detected by a set of silicon sensors developed in the UK.