SAT Expo News

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 successfully released [...]

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 five [...]

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 next [...]

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 a height [...]

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 placed into [...]

“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 – comes [...]

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 has [...]

Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida’s Space Coast on Monday February 7th with a launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle’s last scheduled night launch began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations. Space Shuttle heading for the International Space Station carrying [...]

For one day, the world’s major space agencies will be the protagonists of Roman cultural and political life, and Rome will find itself under the eyes of the world aerospace community.
The topic is Aerospace cooperation and strategies in the Mediterranean, discussed by representatives of space agencies in the Mediterranean (Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Israel, Syria, Turkey), [...]

The Vice-minister for Economic Development, Hon. Adolfo Urso, will open “Ready for EGNOS! A new Era for European Navigation,” at  09.15 a.m. in the SAT Expo Room, Fiera Roma, Thursday, 4 February.
The Conference organized with the European Commission will present the new European satellite navigation system’s applications, which are already operational and will refine GPS [...]