Outline Proposals for Round 5 of the ESA Telecom Start-up Projects Initiative will be accepted from 29 March to 9 May 2005.

The Final Presentation demonstrating results of the ESA Telecom funded project Indigo to develop the next generation of technology for satellite-delivered video programming and data for Enterprise and Broadcast customers will be made at ESA/ESTEC on 5 April 2005.

Are you or have you ever been a user of Satellite Broadband? If so, the Southwest Regional Authority is asking you to complete a simple online survey.

The Final Presentation announcing results of the ESA Telecom funded study HDTV Opportunities for Satellite Broadcasting will be made at ESA/ESTEC on 5 April 2005.

On 18 March the European Centre for Space Law, which is based at ESA's headquarters in Paris, is organising a one-day Practioners' Forum on 'New Development in the Field of Satellite Telecommunications'. All those interested in the legal issues surrounding satellite telecommunications are invited to attend.

Ground Segment tests for the AmerHis <i>'Switchboard in Space'</i> were successfully completed at separate locations in Spain on 4 February 2005 and mark the first combined use of in-orbit and ground segment equipment.

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.

Telemedicine is healthcare's new frontier, a means of facilitating the distribution of human resources and professional competences. It can speed up diagnosis and therapeutic care delivery and allow peripheral and primary healthcare providers to receive continuous assistance from specialised centres.

Results from the recently completed AmerHis in-orbit tests report that the payload is operating extremely well; this was made known during the 7th Co-ordination Meeting which took place at ESA/ESTEC on 14 December 2004.