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HRH King Felipe VI today opened the eighth edition of the World ATM Congress, featuring 6,000 professionals from 110 countries, and which also includes a new edition of Expodrónica (Drone Expo), with 50 exhibitors. It is being held in Madrid between 26 and 28 October. The King also visited the stand of ENAIRE, Spain's national Read More

World Air Traffic Management Congress At the World ATM Congress 2021, ENAIRE will present its essential role in developing both the drone sector in Spain and the future of Urban Air Mobility. The 2021 edition of the fair will be held in Pavilion 9 of the IFEMA fairgrounds in Madrid from 26 to 28 October, Read More

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer and his NASA crew mates Raja Chari, Thomas Marshburn and Kayla Barron are all smiles as they arrive at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA on 26 October 2021. Collectively, the astronauts make up Crew-3 and will travel to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft “Endurance”. Read More

OneWeb Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites to service NEOM, the Kingdom and MEA, transforming connectivity to businesses and rural communities High-speed connectivity will be a vital enabler of groundbreaking ecosystem of cognitive technologies NEOM Tech & Digital Holding Company – the first holding company to be established as a subsidiary of NEOM – and OneWeb, Read More

State-of-the-art satellite serving the Americas will transform aviation connectivity landscape and accelerate digital inclusion programmes in the region SES announced today that the SES-17 satellite was successfully launched into space onboard an Ariane 5 launcher operated by Arianespace from the Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana at 11:10 pm local time (02:10 am UTC) | Read More

ESA As of today, ESA has appointed three new Directors - for Commercialisation, Industry and Procurement, Earth Observation Programmes and Navigation. The new Directors were appointed by ESA Council at its meeting on 21 October; they will support the Director General with responsibility for activities and overall objectives in their respective directorates. Director of Commercialisation, Read More

A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Lucy mission for NASA lifted off on Oct. 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. To date ULA has launched 146 times with 100 percent mission success. Read More

Two launches from two coasts within three weeks in partnership with NASA LSP Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla., (Oct. 16, 2021) – A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket carrying the Lucy mission for NASA lifted off on Oct. 16 at 5:34 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Read More

Everything is proceeding for a historic launch on Saturday morning 10-16-21 at 05:34 AM EDT or 9:34 UTC for the 100th launch from SLC-41 on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket. The Atlas V 401 rocket is the workhorse of the Atlas V fleet with 39 total launches to date in this configuration of Read More

Between September 1982 and December 2020, at least 51 512 people were rescued on land and at sea with help from a network of Earth-orbiting satellites able to detect and locate emergency distress beacons. ESA’s OPS-SAT Space Lab recently demonstrated that by processing data from these beacons in space, instead of on Earth as currently Read More