SAT Expo News

Eutelsat Communications, one of the world’s leading satellite operators, announced that it has selected Astrium to build a 48-transponder Ku-band satellite that will be located at its 70.5° East location in geostationary orbit. Scheduled for launch in fourth quarter 2012, the satellite will replace the W5 craft and more than double Eutelsat’s resources at 70.5° [...]

Paris, July 12th The experience of live 3D in cinemas is one of the key technology highlights of the 2010 FIFA World Cup™, that came to an end last july 11th in South Africa. By offering sports fans a new layer of excitement for viewing sports on a big screen in a collective environment, 3D [...]

BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan, July 11, 2010 International Launch Services (ILS), a leading launch services provider for the global commercial satellite industry, successfully carried the EchoStar XV satellite into orbit on an ILS Proton for DISH Network. The ILS Proton launched from Pad 39 at the Cosmodrome. After a 9 hour 13 minute mission, the Breeze M [...]

Paris, Rome July 12th In the week from 19th  to 25th July, the world attention will be focused on the Farnborough International Airshow. The Farnborough International Airshow (FIA) is one of the world’s most iconic global aviation events. FIA holds a prominent position within the aerospace calendar taking place on a biennial basis. The first [...]

Paris July 7th Astrium has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) to undertake initial development studies for a next-generation launcher. The Next Generation Launcher (NGL) project is part of ESA’s Future Launcher Preparatory Programme, which aims to prepare a proposal combining all technical and organisational aspects of the programme for presentation at ESA’s [...]

Sriharikota, July 13th. Launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre, the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle PSLV-C15 injected five satellites into their orbits. Led by the latest 694 kg Indian remote sensing satellite CARTOSAT-2B, the core alone version of the PSLV-C15 placed four other satellites in a perfect sequencing into a Polar Sun Synchronous Orbit at [...]

Evry, June 28, 2010 Argentine satellite operator ARSAT has chosen Arianespace to launch its Arsat-1 satellite. Arianespace announced that it has signed the launch Service & Solutions contract with Argentine operator ARSAT (Empresa Argentina de Soluciones Satelitales Sociedad Anonima) to orbit the Arsat-1 satellite by mid-2012. Weighing about 2,900 kg. at launch, Arsat-1 will be [...]

“The space agencies that took part in the exhibition (ASI, ESA, NASA, ISRO, ISA), the India Partner Country and 20 foreign delegations gave the event an international profile, which was our main objective” said Paolo Dalla Chiara, president of SAT Expo Europe at the end of the event. “Particular satisfaction – continues Dalla Chiara – [...]

In the frame of a contract with the ESA, Space Engineering and his controlled TeS Teleinformatica e Sistemi developed a new multibeam antenna based on an active discrete lens antenna using aperiodic (or sparse) arrays for  Ka-band multimedia applications. Several advantages are in the project compared to previous traditional solutions. A new high-efficiency very-compact horn [...]