SAT Expo News

Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite contract with OverHorizon with offices in the USA, Sweden and Cyprus. The spacecraft will carry an on-board processing payload provided by Thales Alenia Space, mounted  on Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital)’s STARTM 2.3 satellite platform  Both Thales Alenia Space and Orbital will share [...]

Houston / Moscow — NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sunday, are onboard of the ISS. The Soyuz rocket docket Tuesday December 22. Liftoff of the Soyuz occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. The [...]

On December 24, 1979, the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA), for the first time,  launched their own rocket into space – the foundation stone of the extraordinary success story of the Ariane launcher system. While ESA celebrates this anniversary, an Ariane 5 GS launcher, last December 18,  lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport in French [...]

Paris –  At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to the outside of the European [...]

Bejing – China launched last week a remote-sensing satellite, “Yaogan VII,” from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern Gansu Province.The satellite was successfully launched into the space on a Long March 2D carrier rocket, the center reported. It will be mainly used for scientific experiment, land resources survey, crop yield estimates and disaster prevention [...]

VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – NASA’s Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, lifted off over the Pacific Ocean this morning on its way to map the entire sky in infrared frequency. A Delta II rocket carrying the spacecraft launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. The rocket deposited WISE into a polar orbit [...]

Navigation and mobility on the one side, and  the new social entertainment services via satellite on the other: this will be the main focus of attention at SAT Expo Europe 2010

Government representatives from around the world gathered at the UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, 7–18 December, to negotiate a deal to restrict emissions of heat-trapping gases that drive climate change. Also ESA is attending the conference – also known as COP15 as it will be the 15th Conference of the Parties to the [...]

Virgin Founder, Sir Richard Branson and SpaceshipOne (SS1) designer, Burt Rutan, revealed last monday SpaceShipTwo, SS2, to the public for the first time since construction of the world’s first manned commercial spaceship began in 2007. SS2 has been designed to take many thousands of private astronauts into space after test programming and all required U.S. [...]

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) will attend the third edition of SAT Expo Europe 2010 and will take part in the show with its own booth on Space Communications and Navigation.