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New satellite and microwave-based systems for highway toll payment
Robotiker Telecom is collaborating with Telvent traffic, road transport and toll payment systems R+D group in the design of satellite and microwave (wireless) tele-payment at highway/motorway toll booths.   view more (2004-11-23)

SSTL win BNSC rural broadband study
The British National Space Centre has awarded Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), and Avanti Communications Limited a £100,000 study contract to examine the provision of satellite based broadband services. The study will focus on the provision of cost-effective broadband internet... view more (2003-08-06)

Science From Space
Scientists working at the Bristol Glaciology Centre at the University of Bristol will be staying up all night to watch the lift-off of the largest and most powerful Earth observation satellite ever to be launched by the European Space Agency. The satellite, called ENVISAT, is 25 metres high, ten... view more (2002-02-28)

ESA assessing the situation to bring the Artemis satellite back into the right orbit
Ground controllers are evaluating possibilities to recover the mission of the Artemis telecommunications satellite, one of two spacecraft launched by a European Ariane 5 vehicle on Thursday, 12 July 2001 at 18:58 local time in Kourou, French Guiana , 23:58 (CEST), but that was left stranded in a... view more (2001-07-13)

Scientists isolate world's oldest recorded plant virus
A Japanese poem written by Empress Koken, in the summer of 752AD, is thought to be the world's first record of a plant virus. Scientists from the John Innes Centre in Norwich (JIC)(1) have today reported, for the first time, the isolation and characterisation of the plant virus (eupatorium yellow... view more (2003-04-25)

Pinpoint accuracy with the Proba camera
A new star tracker allowing a satellite to determine its orientation in space with an accuracy never seen before has proved its worth aboard ESA`s Proba mission. Proba (Project for On-Board Autonomy) built by Verhaert (Belgium) for ESA was launched in Autumn 2001 and is now fully operational,... view more (2002-06-04)

Irish airport to take part in the EGNOS system
On 24 July, ESA signed a contract with the Irish Aviation Authority to install satellite navigation equipment at Cork airport in Ireland. This will form part of EGNOS, Europe's first venture into satellite navigation and the first step on the way to Galileo, Europe's own satellite navigation system... view more (2001-08-09)

Press invitation: "The first check-up of the Earth", media event Frascati, Italy
During the night of 28 February/1 March, the European Space Agency (ESA) launched its Envisat satellite on an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe's spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.   view more (2002-03-14)

Flight 146 a success
In the early hours of this morning Flight 146 blasted off into the skies of Kourou, the site of Europe's spaceport. On board the Ariane-4 launcher was the Direct-4S telecommunications satellite tailored to offer viewers in the United States a wide choice of local TV channels. The flight campaign... view more (2001-11-27)

ESA supports Reuters humanitarian trust
A collaboration arrangement was today signed between Reuters Foundation Director, Maureen Marlowe, and ESA`s Director of Earth Observation Programmes, José Achache, at Reuters Corporate headquarters in London. Under this arrangement the European Space Agency will assist Reuters Foundation... view more (2002-06-20)

Media invitation - Follow the launch of MSG-1 from ESA and Arianespace establishments
ESA PR 57-2002. About 25 years after the first Meteosat weather satellite was lofted, the first of a new generation (MSG-1) is to be launched by an Ariane 5 launcher from Europe`s Spaceport in Kourou during the night of 27/28 August, at 19:30 hrs Kourou time (00:30 CEST). With sophisticated new... view more (2002-08-21)

Researchers identify major source of muscle repair cells
In a surprising discovery with implications for treating muscular dystrophy, researchers at the University of Utah School of Medicine and other institutions have identified a major source of origin for two groups of adult cells that regulate muscle repair.   view more (2006-01-30)

Envisat breaks the terabyte barrier
Only three months after the launch of ESA's Envisat spacecraft, the largest and most capable satellite ever built to monitor the Earth's environment, the Envisat system recently passed one of its most significant milestones to date. Last Sunday, 23 June 2002, the Envisat system for distributing... view more (2002-06-26)

Invitation to the press: Galileo at GNSS 2002
The European Space Agency will be joining forces with the European Commission in a major contribution to GNSS 2002, the sixth in a series of international conferences devoted to global satellite navigation systems, to be held in Copenhagen from 27 to 30 May 2002. This European conference on... view more (2002-05-27)

Second Pinpoint Faraday Award for Surrey Space Centre
The Surrey Space Centre and Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), have won a further Pinpoint Faraday award.   view more (2004-03-30)

Launched – the world’s first disaster monitoring service in space
27 September 2003 The world’s first small satellite constellation dedicated to monitoring global disasters has been launched by British company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. Three further satellites for Surrey’s Disaster Monitoring Constellation were launched into low Earth orbit... view more (2003-10-01)

Knighthood for SSTL's Chief Executive
Professor Martin Sweeting, OBE, FRS, Chief Executive Officer of Surrey Satellite Technology Limited and director of the Surrey Space Centre, has been awarded a knighthood in The Queen's New Year's Honours for services to Microsatellite Engineering. Today Sir Martin said: `I am most surprised and... view more (2002-01-03)

Satellite mapping tools prove invaluable to Médecins Sans Frontie'res
The Brussels section of Médecins Sans Frontie'res (MSF), the aid organisation active in more than 80 countries, is at the forefront of international aid groups using satellite imagery to help deliver emergency medical assistance where, and when, it is needed. "We are convinced that... view more (2002-05-30)

Broadband satellite Internet access for schools in rural Ireland
SchoolSat is a trial service providing fast access to the Internet for schools in rural Ireland using leading-edge satellite technology developed by Web-Sat in Dublin and supported by the Telecommunications department of the European Space Agency (ESA). The aim of the trial is to investigate how... view more (2002-10-16)

SSTL make it into Britain’s Top 100 technology companies
30 September 2003 Guildford-based space company, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, have achieved a placing in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100, which recognises Britain’s fastest growing technology companies. SSTL’s sales have grown 50% a year from £5.4 million in 2000 to... view more (2003-10-01)

Controlling civil engineering machinery using satellite
EUREKA project E! 2294 IMAGIN - the "Integrated MAchine Guidance INstruments" - uses satellite navigation to automatically control civil engineering machines with incredible accuracy and over tens of kilometres. The IMAGIN device is a special dual-frequency Global Positioning Satellite (GPS)... view more (2003-12-23)

Final preparation tests for Artemis
ESA’s Artemis spacecraft has just completed a rigorous schedule of final inspections and testing at the European launch site in Kourou, French Guiana. The spacecraft and its sensitive instruments have been protected from the unfriendly tropical conditions in a special,... view more (2001-04-26)

Receivers key to Galileo success
Europe's navigation system requires new receiver designs to make use of the transmissions from its satellite constellation. European industry is developing and supplying receivers for the in-orbit validation of the system.   view more (2006-10-27)

Road testing technologies of the future
ESA is offering industry the opportunity to use a van fully equipped to demonstrate the next generation of advanced mobile multimedia equipment and applications. The van can be used as a standard test platform. It offers the user ample space, electrical and computing power as well as a... view more (2002-12-03)

Three more DMC spacecraft prepare for launch
SSTL are preparing for the launch of three more spacecraft in the international Disaster Monitoring Constellation - the first cluster of satellites dedicated to monitoring disasters from space. The three spacecraft, each with a mass of approximately 100kg, have arrived at the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in... view more (2003-09-15)
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