Focus: Europe

Avanti has signed an interesting partnership with one of the United Kingdom’s big hopes for the Tokyo Olympic Games on International Women’s Day. The company is partnering with British 400m […]

After winning the Telesat deal, Thales Alenia Space has followed up with another major contract worth 772 million euros ($929.8 million) with the European Space Agency (ESA), acting on behalf […]

Orbex has commissioned AMCM [Additive Manufacturing Customized Machines] to build what it says will be the largest industrial 3D printer in Europe to print rocket engines. The specific monetary value […]

Airbus Defence and Space has teamed up with the Advanced Technology Institute at the University of Surrey to develop what it calls a breakthrough nano-barrier that can protect satellites in LEO […]

Eutelsat Communications saw revenues and profits fall slightly in the six months to the end of December 2020, and pushed back the launch of several satellites in its First Half […]

Viasat has started 2021 strong in the In-Flight Connectivity (IFC) sector, and after a recent deal with Delta Airlines, has followed with a deal to bring IFC services to Russia. […]

The European GNSS Agency (GSA) has selected Eutelsat Communications to develop, integrate, and operate its next-generation EGNOS GEO-4 service. The 15-year contract, announced Tuesday, has a total value of 100 […]

Lockheed Martin has selected ABL Space Systems to supply a rocket and launch services to launch from the United Kingdom. The deal is part of the UK Pathfinder Launch program, […]

GMV is set to open a new office in Brussels as it looks to better support Europe’s initiatives in space, the company announced Monday. The company said opening a new […]

Orbitare has reached a deal with Spire Global to deploy its personal satellite communication network, Spaceloop, on Spire’s nanosatellite constellation. Orbitare will send two in-orbit demonstrations of Spaceloop to orbit […]

Eutelsat announced two new capacity deals in the space of 24 hours, including a deal with Liquid Telecom, which renewed and expanded its Ku-band capacity agreements on the EUTELSAT 7B […]

German rideshare provider Exolaunch was a part of SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission on Sunday, the largest rideshare mission to date, carrying 143 satellites in total. Exolaunch brought 30 satellites along for […]

Satellite operator Inmarsat will provide connectivity services to a United Kingdom government initiative, Project HEART, which aims to build the U.K.’s first automated, zero-carbon regional air transportation network by 2025. […]

Swedish Space Corporation (SSC) has signed a deal to work on space-to-ground optical communications with Airbus Defence and Space Netherlands. Optical communication between ground stations and satellites in orbit enables […]

The European Commission (EC) awarded 1.47 billion euros ($1.77 billion) to Thales Alenia Space and Airbus Defence & Space on Tuesday to build and launch Europe’s second-generation Galileo satellite positioning […]

Airbus revealed Thursday that it has successfully completed the Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Skynet 6A project. The project now has permission to move into the next phase, which […]

At the 13th European Space Conference on Wednesday, Gerry Collins, network and services policy expert for ESOA stated that the satellite industry needs to change its way of doing business […]

Eutelsat has taken on a eight-year, $243 million (200 million euro) financing agreement from the European Investment Bank (EIB) to back investments related to the procurement and launch of the […]

European Space Agency (ESA) Director General Jan Woerner has decided to step down from his position at the end of February, a few months before the end of his term, […]

Last year, Airbus had the target of selling three of its new flexible OneSat satellites to customers around the world. Between January 1st 2020 and December 30th 2020, it had […]

On December 23, shortly before the holidays, I received a press release that headlined: “European space and digital players to study build of EU’s satellite-based connectivity system.” As part of […]

Arianespace reported $1 billion euro ($1.2 billion) in sales in 2020, approximately the same level of sales as 2019, in a year-end update released Thursday. The European launcher also reported […]

An Arianespace Soyuz rocket orbited a French defense satellite on Dec. 29 in Arianespace’s final launch of 2020. The Soyuz rocket carrying the CSO-2 satellite took off from the Guiana […]

The European Commission has selected a group of companies in the satellite industry including Airbus, Arianespace, and SES, to study the build of a satellite-based connectivity system for the European […]

The commission set up by the European Space Agency (ESA) and Arianespace to investigate the Vega launch failure in November has released its findings. Arianespace CEO Stéphane Israël said in […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) awarded ArianeGroup a $40 million (33 million euros) contract this month for the initial stages of development on a reusable rocket first stage prototype called […]

SES extended a Standard Definition (SD) and High Definition (HD) broadcasting agreement with Germany’s 1-2-3.tv, the company revealed Wednesday. 1-2-3.tv is a German omnichannel auction platform that reaches over 2 […]

Arianespace revealed Monday that it signed a contract with Airbus to launch four optical observation satellites for the Composante Optique 3D (CO3D) constellation. These Earth Observation (EO) satellites are being […]

Gerry O’Sullivan, Eutelsat’s executive vice president of Global TV and Video is leaving the company, according to an internal memo shared with Via Satellite. O’Sullivan, who has held the role […]

The European Space Agency (ESA) selected GMV to help with the the next phase of Galileo Second Generation (G2g). GMV is one of the three main phase-B contractors for the […]