October 2023
The impact of weather on Ka-band frequencies
...Manchester Business School, in 1986 he joined Europe’s first commercial satellite operator, the recently incorporated SES Astra, in Luxembourg and has been working in the commercial satellite communications sector ever since. Since 1998 he has worked...
13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... with 20 member countries (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom) and one...
07 January 2016
France and Germany May Withdraw from ISS in 2020
... ministers, scheduled for December 2016 in Lucerne, Switzerland. At the last ESA ministerial meeting in December 2014 in Luxembourg, Germany and other governments committed to a 10-year program of support for current and future launch vehicles valued...
28 January 2016
Historic Intelsat Satellite Launch Successful
...5 rocket had successfully placed the first of Intelast's Epic-generation satellites into transfer orbit. Intelsat, a US and Luxembourg-based company, is expecting revenue growth as the Epic Ku-band high-throughput satellites appeal to new markets for...
13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
...won a European Commission-organized painting competition in 2011 – Daniele Gedminaite from Lithuania and Alizee Schreoder from Luxembourg - are then to be mated atop Soyuz’ Fregat upper stage and encapsulated in the protective payload fairing. Daniel...
29 March 2017
SpaceX set to reuse rocket for the first time on Friday
..., costs can be kept down. Martin Halliwell, chief technology officer for SES, a satellite operator based out of Luxembourg, also has a vested interest in reusable rocket technology. “Having been the first commercial satellite operator to launch...
