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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 ...

Inmarsat to create fourth full-service L-band region

June 10th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

10 June 2015 – Inmarsat today confirmed that it will be flying its Inmarsat-4 F2 (I-4 F2) communications satellite to a new orbital position above the Indian Ocean, creating a fourth full-service L-band region, which will offer enhanced conne...

First flight of an Inmarsat SwiftBroadband Safety equipped aircraft with Hawaiian Airlines

June 9th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

9 June 2015 – Inmarsat today announced that Hawaiian Airlines is now the first commercial airline to fly with its SwiftBroadband Safety service on its Boeing 767-300 fleet. The first flight took place on June 3 after the Supplemental Type Cer...

Airbus Defence and Space provides Skynet military satellite communication to Norwegian MoD

June 8th, 2015 Posted in Uncategorised

8 June 2015 – Airbus Defence and Space has signed a four-year framework agreement with the Norwegian Defence Logistic Organisation (NDLO) for the provision of X-band satellite capacity and has committed to deliver up to 30Mhz of capacity annu...

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