Logging the smart way
10 Sep 2014
For the independent owner-operators of the harvesting machinery, the Treemetrics system provides detailed navigation capabilities as well as security options to help safeguard their equipment.…
Satellites improving lives in rural Africa
26 Aug 2014
The Rural Radios element is developing a satellite-assisted radio service to support farmers, workers and the population of the Democratic Republic of Congo on food…
Supercapacitors in space
25 Aug 2014
Do supercapacitors also have applications in telecommunications satellites? To find out, ESA recently funded a study under ARTES 5.1 in which researchers from ESA/ESTEC (NL),…
Promising new anti-interference techniques for satcoms
20 Aug 2014
Satellite communication signals, like all wireless transmissions, are susceptible to interference. This is accounted for during the design phase and not normally is a problem.…
The SmallGEO – Hispasat AG1 satellite: ready for testing
19 Aug 2014
SmallGEO is a small, general-purpose geostationary satellite platform that will give European industry the opportunity to play a significant role in the commercial telecom market.…
ESA gives SAT-AIS a boost
24 Jul 2014
Large vessels and all passenger ships irrespective of size are mandated by the International Maritime Organization to carry Automatic Identification System (AIS) equipment. It transmits…
HYDRA, the multi-headed star tracker
04 Jul 2014
Sodern, a French company which specialises in space instrumentation and optics, was one of the first suppliers of compact autonomous star trackers, taking advantage of…
Two ARTES brochures updated
02 Jul 2014
The ESA ARTES Programme brochure explains in a nutshell what ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems programme is all about. You will learn about the basic…
World Cup United: how satellites make football a truly global game
15 Jun 2014
Thousands of fans may enjoy the football in person, but it’s estimated that over 3.2 billion of us will catch some of the live TV…
ASTRIUM’s Ku-band feed chain: a commercial success
03 Jun 2014
Why did ASTRIUM decide to develop its own Ku-band feed chain rather than simply purchase the unit from another supplier? We developed our own Ku-band…