September 2025
Iran’s ascent - a space power in the shadow of sanctions
... scrutiny and sanction. Iran, often cast in adversarial terms by the West, launched more satellites in 2024 than Europe. In this revealing analysis, veteran space writer Brian Harvey explores the evolution of Iran’s civil and military...
April 2026
Exploring Mars – the key issues
... and physical interaction with new environments. It is no accident that the cultural and technological renaissances in central Europe, between the 15th and 17th centuries, occurred during a period of unprecedented physical exploration and discovery...
05 April 2017
The final journey for EUMETSAT’s oldest operational meteorological satellite
... (MTP), and was part of a pioneering geostationary weather programme that shaped the success story of satellite meteorology in Europe. With almost 20 years in orbit, Meteosat-7 has had the longest operational lifetime of any European meteorological...
30 May 2017
Plans for Europe's first commercial video satellite constellation
A British satellite company has announced its intention to launch a commercial constellation of Earth observation satellites offering both video and imagery - and the first in the world to provide full-colour video footage. A prototype spacecraft ...
26 October 2018
Orion's service module ready to be shipped from Europe
It has been years in the making, but the European Service module that will power NASA’s Orion spacecraft is finally ready to be shipped to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA where it will be put together with the rest of the Orion spacecraft. ...
04 July 2019
Annual Global MilSatCom in London
... on 5-7 November 2019 alongside a Small Satellites and Disruptive Space Technology focus event the previous day. As Europe’s leading military communications event for satellite professionals, Global MilSatCom’s reputation has been built on the high...
