The second ESA workshop on Advanced Flexible Telecom Payloads is designed to present and discuss the latest technical and technological advances in satellite communications payloads with on board flexibility capabilities.

Alphabus is the first European Large Platform for geostationary telecommunication satellites of up to 22 KW payload power and up to 1400 kg payload mass. The Alphasat satellite is the first mission based on the Alphabus platform.

The 19th Ka and Broadband Communications Conference, hosted by ESA and the Italian Space Agency, and the 31st AIAA International Communications Satellite Systems Conference will be held jointly in Florence, Italy.