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Russia launches European satellite to monitor Earth's atmosphere

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Oct 13^th 2017 |

Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun's radiation, ...

SpaceX launches 10 satellites for Iridium mobile network

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Oct 10^th 2017 |

SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket on Monday carrying 10 satellites to bolster the global data communications network for Virginia-based company, Iridium.The white r...

SpaceX launches Taiwan's first home-built satellite

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Aug 25^th 2017 |

SpaceX on Thursday launched the first satellite designed and built entirely in Taiwan, a spacecraft that aims to boost disaster forecasts and mapping, environmental ob...

Japan launches satellite for better GPS system

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Aug 21^st 2017 |

Japan on Saturday launched the third satellite in its effort to build a homegrown geolocation system aimed at improving the accuracy of car navigation systems and smartphone maps to mere centimetres. An H-IIA rocket ...

NASA launches satellite to help astronauts talk to Earth

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Aug 18^th 2017 |

NASA on Friday launched the latest in a series of satellites aimed at ensuring astronauts at the International Space Station can communicate with Earth.The $408 milli...

Russian rocket returns to service with launch of US satellite

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jun 8^th 2017 |

Russia on Thursday sent into space a Proton rocket carrying a US telecom satellite, Echostar-21, the first launch in a year after an engine glitch sparked a probe int...

Space junk could destroy satellites, hurt economies

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, May 31^st 2017 |

The growing amount of fast-moving space debris orbiting the Earth could lead to catastrophic collisions with satellites, hurting economies, researchers warned Wednesd...

SpaceX launches Inmarsat communications satellite

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, May 16^th 2017 |

SpaceX on Monday launched a communications satellite for Inmarsat, marking its first launch for the London-based mobile broadband company.The Inmarsat-5 F4 satellite, built by Boeing, blasted off atop a Falcon 9 rock...

SpaceX launches communications satellite into orbit

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Mar 16^th 2017 |

SpaceX on Thursday successfully launched a communications satellite into space from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The company's Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 2...

Europe launches fourth Earth monitoring satellite

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Mar 7^th 2017 |

Europe launched a fourth satellite Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.The 1.1-tonne, "colour-vision" Sent...

Another satellite launch for Europe's Earth monitoring system

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Mar 3^rd 2017 |

Europe is set to launch a fourth satellite next Tuesday for its ambitious Copernicus Earth monitoring project to track changing land cover and pollution, launch firm ...

Opinion column

Connectivity and Big Data related to aeronautical MRO

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Mar 2^nd 2017 |

The technology now allows us to glimpse the maturity of connectivity and Big Data for massive use in aeronautical maintenance. In principle nothing very new to this. ...

OneWeb, Intelsat merge to advance satellite internet

AIR TRANSPORT | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Mar 1^st 2017 |

Satellite telecom firms OneWeb and Intelsat announced plans Tuesday to merge, and a fresh $1.7 billion investment from Japan's SoftBank to advance an ambitious "inter...

Airbus completes first GRACE-FO satellite for NASA/JPL

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Fri, Oct 28^th 2016 |

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has finished construction of the first of the two GRACE-FO (GRACE = Gravity Recovery and Climate Ex...

Airbus Defence and Space signs contract with Inmarsat to build two next generation satellites

SPACE | AVIATION WORLD NEWS | Wed, Jan 6^th 2016 |

Airbus Defence and Space, the world’s second largest space company, has been awarded a contract by Inmarsat, the lead...