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Launch of the UK Space Agency’s International Partnership Space Programme

November 17th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

17 November 2014 – The UK Space Agency is pleased to announce the launch of the International Partnership Space Programme. Full details of the programme can be found on the Agency’s website www.bis.gov.uk/ukspaceagency along with application ...

ESA commissions Airbus Defence and Space as prime contractor for US space capsule Orion service module

November 17th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

17 November 2014 – Airbus Defence and Space has signed a contract with ESA for the development and construction of the service module for Orion, the future American human space capsule. The contract is worth around €390m. The service module w...

Register now for Horizon 2020 Space UK Info Day – 2015 Calls

November 13th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

13 November 2014 – The Space KTN is inviting people to join it on 9 December in London for a European Commission presentation on the content of the H2020 Space 2015 Work Programme

Success for Rosetta

November 12th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

12 November 2014 – Today at 17:03 PM (CET), the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt reported a successful landing, announcing: “Philae has landed!”. Some seven hours before, the Philae lander had detached from the Rosetta spacecraft...

Finmeccanica – Selex ES wins €65m contract with Airbus Defence and Space

November 10th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

10 November 2014 – Finmeccanica - Selex ES has signed a €65m contract with Airbus Defence and Space to supply an innovative high-performance, optical instrument which will be used within the climate and environmental monitoring MetOp- SG prog...

Airbus Defence and Space primes ESA’s CHEOPS satellite to detect and characterise exoplanets

November 7th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

7 November 2014 – Airbus Defence and Space has become the prime contractor for the CHEOPS (CHaracterising ExOPlanet Satellite) satellite, the first small type mission of ESA’s Scientific Programme.

Business Secretary Vince Cable visits SSTL

November 5th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

5 November 2014 – Dr Matt Perkins, CEO of Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), hosted a visit by Business Secretary, Vince Cable, to the Company’s facilities in Guildford on Friday 31 October.

Second Edition of ‘Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Radar’ addresses STAP Concepts Methods for Radar

November 3rd, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

3 November 2014 – Artech House has published the Second Edition of of Space-Time Adaptive Processing for Radar, by J.R. Guerci. Space-time adaptive processing (STAP) is an exciting technology for advanced radar systems that allows for signif...

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