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Telespazio VEGA UK leads on the integration of satellite services to deliver an Integrated Situational Awareness Service for the Arctic region

February 3rd, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

3 February 2014 – Telespazio VEGA UK, a subsidiary of Telespazio (Finmeccanica/Thales), along with an international consortium, will be developing and trialling new and improved situational awareness services tailored for the Arctic region through...

Airbus Defence and Space wins ground segment contract for future French Defence observation satellite system

January 23rd, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

23 January 2014 – Space Systems of Airbus Defence and Space, number two worldwide in space technologies, has been selected by the French armament procurement agency DGA to build the user ground segment (UGS) of the MUSIS (MUltinational Space-based...

Belgian consortium signs contract to build Vietnamese earth observation satellite

January 21st, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

21 January 2014 – A consortium of Belgian aerospace companies including QinetiQ Space yesterday signed a pre-contract agreement with the Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology (VAST) in the presence of Deputy Prime Minister Johan Vande Lanotte ...

Wake up Rosetta!

January 17th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

17 January 2014 – On 20 January 2014, the global space community will turn its gaze to Darmstadt (Germany) in anticipation of signals from Rosetta, the comet probe developed and built by Space Systems (formerly Astrium) of Airbus Defence and Space...

First mission for SSTL’s new X50 platform will be for Kazakh customer

January 14th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

14 January 2014 – Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) and Ghalam LLP (Kazakhstan) have agreed that SSTL’s new X50 platform design will deliver KazSTSAT, a small satellite mission announced under a contract signed last year. KazSTSAT will be bas...

Stargazing week brings UK space industry into sharp focus

January 10th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

To celebrate the return of Stargazing on BBC2 in January 2014, there have been a series of space-themed interviews throughout the week (6-10 January) across BBC radio and TV with key space businesses. On 7 January there was a space section on the ...

Reaching for the skies

January 7th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

UK Space industry reflects on success and prospects as Britain tunes in to BBC’s Stargazing LIVE As all eyes turn to the skies with the return of Stargazing on BBC2, trade organisation ADS Group highlights the important contribution of the ...

NPL ‘selfie’ one of Physics World’s pictures of 2013

January 6th, 2014 Posted in Uncategorised

Physics World, the member magazine of the Institute of Physics, has chosen a ‘selfie’ taken by NPL scientist Michael de Podesta to be one of its ‘pictures of 2013‘. ‘Selfie’, meaning a self-portrait photograph, ...

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