Europe's biggest ever commercial telecommunications satellite is ready to begin serious testing ahead of its entry into service. Alphasat, which was launched 10 days ago on an Ariane rocket, is now at ...

Africa will get improved satellite coverage when Astrium's Alphasat is launched from French Guiana later this year - the programme has reached a major milestone this week with the successful ...

The upper portion of Ariane 5’s dual-passenger “stack” has been completed, with the Alphasat satellite and SYLDA dispenser system now encapsulated inside the launcher’s payload fairing in preparation ...

The party to celebrate the launch of our Alphasat telecommunication satellite on the 25 th of July was great fun. Watching the live feed of the Ariane 5 rocket lifting-off majestically from French ...

Today at the Paris Air Show, ESA and Inmarsat moved closer to the implementation of Alphasat, the first satellite based on Alphabus, the new European telecommunications platform. Alphabus is a ...

TOULOUSE, France — Europe’s billion-dollar Alphasat I-XL telecommunications satellite, financed by the French and European space agencies to maintain Europe’s commercial competitiveness against the ...

ESA and Inmarsat Global Ltd announce on Friday 23 November in Paris the formal signature of the contract for Alphasat satellite, one of the world's largest telecommunications satellites. The Alphasat ...

The key task of deploying Alphasat's big antenna was completed at the weekend Europe's biggest ever commercial telecommunications satellite is ready to begin serious testing ahead of its entry into ...