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More than 70 representatives of the aviation, telecom and space industries, as well as institutional stakeholders gathered in Salzburg, Austria this week to attend the third Information Event on ESA´s Iris Programme.
The Redsat onboard processor, a key to providing next-generation broadband through far better signal quality and speed at lower cost, is ready to be added to the first SmallGEO satellite platform for launch next year.
Telecom.esa.int will now be providing information on the status of closed Invitation To Tenders (ITTs) issued for ARTES 1 and ARTES 5.1 activities.
The Small Geostationary Satellite initiative is aimed at the development of a general purpose small geostationary satellite platform which will enable European industry s to compete effectively in the commercial telecom market for small platforms.
ESA´s retired GIOVE-A navigation mission has become the first civilian satellite to perform GPS position fixes from high orbit.
Presentations from the recently completed 2006 Telecom Applications Workshop held at ESA ESTEC in Noordwijk the Netherlands are now available on-line. Each of the twenty-six presentations can be downloaded for your reference.
A product using bandwidth and power efficiently to connect remote communities to the rest of the world has caught the attention of ESA and the World Economic Forum (WEF).
On 26 February, the Netherlands became the 14th Member State to support the ARTES 10 Iris Programme for Air Traffic Management.
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 from the 14 to 17 October.