http://blog.satexpo.it News from the satellite world Tue, 09 Feb 2010 21:02:37 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Space Shuttle Endeavour lit up the predawn sky above Florida's Space Coast on Monday February 7th with a launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The shuttle's last scheduled night launch began a 13-day flight to the International Space Station and the final year of shuttle operations. Space Shuttle heading for the International ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/node-3-and-cupola-italian-technology-to-complete-the-iss-on-board-of-endeavour/ Mr René Oosterlinck, ESA’s Director of the Galileo Programme and Navigation-related Activities, signed the first three contracts for the Galileo full operational capability phase. This event marks the start of building the Galileo operational infrastructure. The signing ceremony took place at ESA’s European Space Research and Technology Centre at Noordwijk (The ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/major-galileo-contracts-signed-by-esa-at-estec/ The team consisting of the US firm Lockheed Martin and the Italian company e-GEOS (Telespazio/ASI) has been awarded a contract worth up to USD 85 million by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) to provide data, products and services from the COSMO-SkyMed satellites. The contract was signed in Denver (Colorado) and has ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/a-major-achievement-for-cosmo-skymed-e-geos-will-contribute-to-supply-satellite-data-to-the-national-geospatial-intelligence-agency-us/ After a major 7.0-magnitude earthquake struck the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince on 12 January, causing major casualties and damage the rescue teams needed new satellite high resolution maps, because such a powerful earthquake can make current maps suddenly out of date, causing additional challenges to rescue workers on the ground. Following ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/very-high-resolution-imagery-required-by-rescue-team-in-haity-provided-by-charter-initiative/ Antonio Tajani, European Commission Vice-President in charge of Transport, has announced the award of three of the six contracts for the procurement of Galileo's initial operational capability. The European Commission has selected the consortium led by OHB-System AG (Germany) and Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. (SSTL, UK) for building and testing 14 ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/european-commission-selects-ohb-and-sstl-for-the-construction-of-14-galileo-navigation-satellites/ Vessel traffic security of Venice lagoon will be guaranteed by SELEX Sistemi Integrati, a Finmeccanica Group Company. Selex has been awarded a contract for the realization of the phase 1 of the Integrated Monitoring Telematic System (STIM) that will enable the vessel movements surveillance of the Venice lagoon and perform, ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/vessel-traffic-monitoring-systems-selex-sistemi-integrati-wins-a-contract-for-vts-of-venice-lagoon/ Thales Alenia Space announced that it has signed a new geosynchronous (GEO) communications satellite contract with OverHorizon with offices in the USA, Sweden and Cyprus. The spacecraft will carry an on-board processing payload provided by Thales Alenia Space, mounted  on Orbital Sciences Corporation (Orbital)’s STARTM 2.3 satellite platform  Both Thales ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/thales-alenia-space-and-orbital-receive-contract-for-overhorizon-commercial-communication-satellite/ Houston / Moscow -- NASA astronaut T.J. Creamer, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Kotov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, launched aboard a Soyuz spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sunday, are onboard of the ISS. The Soyuz rocket docket Tuesday December 22. Liftoff of the Soyuz occurred from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/crew-lifted-off-from-kazakhstan-with-a-soyuz-docked-at-the-international-space-station/ On December 24, 1979, the member states of the European Space Agency (ESA), for the first time,  launched their own rocket into space - the foundation stone of the extraordinary success story of the Ariane launcher system. While ESA celebrates this anniversary, an Ariane 5 GS launcher, last December 18,  lifted off from ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/celebrating-three-decades-of-achievements-in-the-european-spaceport-french-guyana-with-a-new-launch-helios-2b-successfully-in-orbit/ Paris -  At the Paris headquarters of the French space agency (CNES), Simonetta Di Pippo, ESA Director of Human Spaceflight, and Thierry Duquesne, CNES Director for Strategy, Programmes and International Relations, signed an agreement that paves the way for the launch of a high-accuracy atomic clock to be attached to ... http://blog.satexpo.it/en/pharao-atomic-clock-agreement-signed-by-esa-and-cnes/