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Oxford Space Systems raises £1m in over-subscribed interim round

June 15th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

15 June 2017 – Space hardware company Oxford Space Systems (OSS) has successfully secured over £1m in it an interim funding round. This has come predominantly from its existing institutional and private investors but also from new US investo...

First ten satellites in the Iridium NEXT constellation, built by Thales Alenia Space, now validated in orbit

June 14th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

14 June 2017 – Following the launch of the first ten Iridium NEXT satellites in January 2017, their commissioning has proceeded very smoothly, as they passed all in-orbit tests with flying colors.

Airbus celebrates 10 years of precision and reliability of TerraSAR-X satellite

June 14th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

14 June 2017 – Designed to operate for five years, Airbus’s Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite TerraSAR-X has achieved ten years of flawless operations in orbit providing high-resolution radar images in all weather conditions 24 hours a...

EchoStar XXI Satellite Successfully Launched

June 9th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

9 June 2017 — EchoStar Mobile, an EU-wide licensee for an integrated mobile satellite services (MSS) network with a complementary ground component, today announced that the EchoStar XXI mobile satellite was successfully launched on June 8, 20...

Happy birthday COSMO-SkyMed

June 7th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

7 June 2017 – Thales Alenia Space is celebrating the 10th anniversary of the COSMO-SkyMed system, the global standard in spaceborne radar technology, following its launch from California in 2007.

Thales Alenia Space signed a contract with Inmarsat for the construction of GX satellite

June 6th, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

6 June 2017 – Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with Inmarsat for the construction of its new communication Global Xpress (GX) satellite. The value of the contract will be approximately $130 million over the three years 2017 to 2019.

First high power all-electric satellite, EUTELSAT 172B, launched by Ariane 5

June 2nd, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

2 June 2017 – EUTELSAT 172B, the first high power all-electric telecommunications satellite worldwide built by Airbus for Eutelsat, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, has been successfully launched from Kourou, French Guiana by A...

SSTL demonstrates video from orbit capability

May 31st, 2017 Posted in Uncategorised

31 May 2017 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) has today released videos from orbit taken by CARBONITE-1, a technology demonstration satellite launched to demonstrate rapid build techniques and to test a telescope and video camera, both...

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