The Final Presentation on the ESA Telecom funded project, ConeXpress to ascertain the feasibility of the Orbit Life Extension Vehicle will be held at ESA/ESTEC on 31 March 2005.

The ARTES-3 Line 2 theme "Multimedia Ground Terminals and Equipment" supports industries in the process of developing or enhancing their products to match specific opportunities in the multimedia domain.

The workshop has specifically addressed the potential interest for the European civil aviation community of deploying, in some ten years time and for the sole purpose of Air Traffic Management, a new specifically tailored satellite based radio-communication system, in order to allow accommodation of the expected additional air traffic demand.

Faster access to web data via satellites and a SiMPLE software package

Pioneering SkyPlexNet now operational

The ARTES-3 Line 2 theme "Multimedia Ground Terminals and Equipment" is to support industries who are in the process of developing or enhancing their products to match specific opportunities in the multimedia domain.

The aim of the "Multimedia Ground Terminals and Equipment" Technology ITT is to provide support for industries developing or enhancing their products to meet specific opportunities in the multimedia sector.

After extensive performance testing, the Enhanced Skyplex Engineering Qualification Model has been fully integrated on Eutelsats W3A Spacecraft and will be launched later this year.

As resin-loaded pine trees explode into flames hundreds of kilometres into the primal Canadian forest, high-tech firefighters are turning to the latest in satellite technology this summer to battle these ferocious blazes.

In line with the aim of the Technology programme line - to develop equipment and subsystems for evolving satcom systems - the "Multimedia Satellite Equipment" ITT is tailored to support the development of key equipment in the payload and platform sector.