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World-Link strengthens its market position with a new Inmarsat agreement

June 25th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

25 June 2015 – Inmarsat has signed an agreement with World-Link Communications, Inc. (‘World-Link’), appointing the innovative satellite services provider as a Partner for FleetBroadband, serving the maritime market globally. Alongside the ag...

SSTL installs new ground station in Svalbard

June 24th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

24 June 2015 – SSTL is now downloading data from its newly installed ground station in Svalbard, which will maximise contact with the Company’s polar-orbiting satellites. The Svalbard ground station, uniquely located close to the North Pole, ...

Airbus Defence and Space unveils new mobile welfare communication portfolio

June 23rd, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

23 June 2015 – A new portfolio of scalable welfare satcoms services for UK military personnel has been introduced by Airbus Defence and Space. The focus of the new Wel2Go portfolio is to provide reliable, value for money and easy to transport...

Successfully launched Sentinel-2A will provide colour vision of Earth

June 23rd, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

23 June 2015 – Sentinel-2A is the first optical Earth observation satellite in the European Copernicus programme. Today a Vega launcher took off from the spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, carrying the satellite developed and built under the...

SSTL to work with UrtheCast on 16-satellite constellation

June 19th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

19 June 2015 – SSTL is to team with UrtheCast, a Canadian Earth Observation company, as the implementation partner for the forthcoming Generation-3 constellation. This announcement follows several months of close co-operation between the SSTL...

European space agencies step up space surveillance and tracking

June 17th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

17 June 2015 – The Space Surveillance and Tracking (SST) Consortium Agreement, signed by France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the UK, will see its members doing more to monitor and track space objects and detect their uncontrolled re-entry into ...

Honeywell and Inmarsat achieve key milestone to bring high-speed wi-fi to airplanes over land and water

June 16th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

16 June 2015 – Paving the way for a new era of in-flight wireless connectivity similar to what is available at home or in the office, Honeywell Aerospace and Inmarsat have successfully completed the first phase of hardware and satellite netwo...

Sentinel-2A satellite ready for Launch from Kourou – ‘Color Vision’ for Europe’s Copernicus Programme

June 16th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

16 June 2015 – Sentinel-2A, Europe´s next Copernicus satellite in Space, is being readied by engineers from Airbus Defence and Space for a 23 June 2015 lift-off from Kourou, French Guiana. Sentinel-2A will be the second satellite of Europe’s ...

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