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Successful launch marks key milestone for OneWeb’s ‘Five to 50’ ambition

March 25th, 2021 Posted in News

OneWeb confirms successful launch and contact with all 36 satellites The latest deployment brings the in-orbit constellation to 146 satellites On track to cover 50 degrees Latitude and above by end of year; three more launches to go OneWeb, the Lo...

Scottish-based space companies secure £8.5million to bring pioneering launch technologies to market

March 24th, 2021 Posted in News

Two British space companies have successfully secured a total of £8.5 million to develop their world-leading small satellite launch technologies. Orbex and Skyrora, both based in Scotland, received the funding under the European Space Agency’s (ES...

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Inmarsat, reappointed as a Commissioner for the UN Broadband Commission

March 22nd, 2021 Posted in News

Rajeev Suri, CEO of Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications, has been reappointed as a Commissioner to the UN Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development. Founded in 2010 by the International Telecommunication Un...

UK space sector gets £1 million boost to support international innovation

March 19th, 2021 Posted in News

Five new projects have been awarded a share of over £1 million of government funding to work with international partners on innovative space technology. Projects to remotely probe ice on Mars to help explorers find life below the surface, a system...

Inmarsat selected by UK Space Agency to develop satellite-based rocket launch telemetry system

March 19th, 2021 Posted in News

The UK Space Agency has awarded a National Space Innovation Programme (NSIP) contract to Inmarsat, the world leader in global, mobile satellite communications to develop an in-orbit telemetry relay service for rockets called “InRange”. Inmarsat’s ...

Astroscale’s ELSA-d mission ready for launch on Saturday 20 March

March 17th, 2021 Posted in News

Astroscale Holdings Inc. (“Astroscale”), the market leader in satellite servicing and long-term orbital sustainability across all orbits, will launch its End-of-Life Services by Astroscale demonstration (ELSA-d) mission from the Baikonur Cosmodrom...

Thales Alenia Space and British Astronaut Helen Sharman inspire students to fly their own science experiments on MARSBalloon 2021

March 12th, 2021 Posted in News

Thales Alenia Space fosters children STEM ambitions with MARSBalloon project, that offers students the chance to design their own science experiments and test technologies that could one day be destined for Mars. According to a survey commissioned...

Teledyne Imaging introduces COSMOS – the next generation of high-performance, large-array cameras for astronomy

March 9th, 2021 Posted in News

Teledyne Imaging, part of Teledyne Technologies, is proud to introduce COSMOS™, large-format, back side illuminated (BSI) CMOS cameras optimized for astronomy. Exclusively developed by Teledyne Imaging, COSMOS draws on decades of expertise in CCD ...

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