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Send your computer code into space with astronaut Tim Peake

February 17th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

17 February 2016 – The UK Space Agency, ESA, and the Raspberry Pi Foundation have announced a new competition for UK school children to write code that will fly with Tim Peake on the International Space Station.

Airbus Defence and Space develops new partnerships for Military satcom services in Asia Pacific Region

February 16th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

16 February 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space is working with local service providers to develop new partnerships to deliver highly resilient Skynet military satellite communication services to the Asia Pacific region.

Test masses of ESA’s LISA Pathfinder released successfully

February 16th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

16 February 2016 – LISA Pathfinder, ESA’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, built by Airbus Defence and Space, has achieved the next milestone to enable science operations.

Sentinel-3A satellite to study the world’s oceans, successfully launched

February 16th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

16 February 2016 – The first of the two flight models of the Sentinel-3 satellites, Sentinel-3A, primed by Thales Alenia Space, was launched on aRockot launcher, from the Plesetsk cosmodrome in Russia.

The Earth Moves for Oxford Space Systems

February 11th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

11 February 2016 – Harwell-based, space tech start-up Oxford Space Systems (OSS) has secured a collaborative contract with a leading academic institute in Kazakhstan to measure earthquake activity from space.

Thales Alenia Space has signed a €450m ESA contract to build Sentinel-3C and D satellites for the Copernicus programme

February 9th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

9 February 2016 – Thales Alenia Space is celebrating today the signing with ESA for the contract worth €450 million, to build the Sentinel-3C and D environmental monitoring and oceanographic satellites for the European program Copernicus.

Successful launch of the first laser telecommunication satellite of the ‘SpaceDataHighway’

January 30th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

30 January 2016 – EDRS-A, the first relay satellite of the SpaceDataHighway, was successfully launched into geostationary orbit on 30 January 2016. After a test period, it will become operational for its first end-user customer by mid-2016.

Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb create OneWeb Satellites company

January 26th, 2016 Posted in Uncategorised

26 January 2016 – Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, which is building a new global satellite communications system, announced the creation of OneWeb Satellites. The new joint venture, equally owned by Airbus Defence and Space and OneWeb, w...

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