Asia Pacific Space Community Council
28 January 2025 – Arianespace announced today at the 17th European Space Conference the signature of the launch contract with the European Commission and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) to orbit the first pair of second-generation satellites (L17) of the Galileo navigation constellation on board an Ariane 6. Both satellites, weighing…
28 January 2025 – The agreement is expected to lead to Viasat, supported by European-based partners, submitting a formal Partnership Project under ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES 4.0) programme for the detailed design and procurement of an Open Architecture LEO network, capable of providing 5G non-terrestrial network services directly to handheld devices. Viasat…
28 January 2025 – Arianespace signs two agreements on Ariane 6 with key European institutions at the 17th European Space Conference. The European Commission, the European Space Agency (ESA) and EUMETSAT have reaffirmed their support for Ariane 6, Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. The European Commission and ESA have entrusted Arianespace with the launch of Sentinel-1D…