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TanDEM-X : DLR and EADS Astrium release new Satellite Mission
- May 17, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Archive
No CommentsThe German Space Agency DLR on behalf of the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology and Europe¨?s leading satellite manufacturer EADS Astrium today announced at the ILA-Airshow in Berlin its intention to build a new satellite mission called TanDEM-X. Following the official kick-off, development and manufacturing of the new German radar-satellite will now start at EADS Astrium¨?s Friedrichshafen plant. TanDEM-X is scheduled for launch in 2009. Together with the almost identical radar satellite TerraSAR-X which is to be launched in autumn this year, it will form a high-precision radar interferometer. (Credits EADS Space)
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Europe??s space industry meets to foster the future
- May 17, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
Representatives of 630 companies and organisations will meet later this month at ESA??s Industry Space Days 2006. (Credits ESA) -
VEGA??s wins contract with French National Space Agency
- May 15, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Archive
VEGA Group PLC (VEGA), the independent Programme and System Assurance Company, has teamed up with ATOS Origin to secure a five-year frame contract with the French National Space Agency (CNES). (Credits Vega-Group)
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Eurimage signs new framework supply contract with the EC
- May 11, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Archive
Eurimage, Italy, has been awarded a framework supply contract by the European Commission – Joint Research Center (EC-JRC) for the provision of satellite remote sensing data to European Institutions Services over the coming years. (Credits Directions Magazine)
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Analysis of Industry Issues for Representation
- May 9, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Archive
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ESA to host Atmospheric Science Conference
- May 5, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
ESA is holding a five-day Europhysics Conference at its ESRIN facilities in Frascati, Italy, from 8-12 May 2006, for data users, scientists and students working in the field of remote sensing of the atmosphere. (Credits ESA)
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National Institute Design flies high with Geo-visulalization projects
- May 5, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: Archive
Indian National Institute of Design is stepping into rarefied fields. The institute may set up a task group if it gets a nod from the Union Ministry of Science and Technology for its two-year mission to evolve a design-oriented geo-visualisation technology. (Credits Times of India)
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eoVox Stakeholders Consultation Workshop, 14 September 2006, Frascati,Italy
- May 2, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
The eoVox Consortium is pleased to announce a one-day workshop dedicated to the common interests of the Earth Observation value adding industry. The workshop will be held under the auspices of ESA/ESRIN on 14 September 2006 in Frascati, Italy.
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EU young people to choose new name for GMES
- April 25, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
In a competition announced by Commission Vice-President G¬?nter Verheugen, European students will be given the chance to come up with a new name for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security initiative (GMES), Europe??s joint effort to make Earth Observation information available to the widest set of users. (Credits Europa)
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Mainoni and Verheugen: GMES will secure our future
- April 24, 2006
- Posted by: EARSC
- Category: EARSC News
EU conference concretises the European space project (Credits EU2006)