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Comms satellite gets ready for launch

Comms satellite gets ready for launch

...In a hangar in the south of France, workers at EADS Astrium are putting the finishing touches to one of their latest satellites... Read more

25 October, 2010 by Nick Heath

Photos: How satellites are made

...that protects the satellite from extremes of temperature in space. Photo credit: EADS Astrium Read more

22 October, 2010 by Nick Heath

Eutelsat's Tooway satellite broadband goes live

...launch, has begun offering commercial broadband services in the UK. Photo credit: EADS Astrium The 'Tooway' services, which are being resold through retail ISPs, went... Read more

1 June, 2011 by David Meyer

Russian satellite brought down despite polar plea

...be repurposed to supply broadband to Antarctic researchers, engineers at prime contractor EADS Astrium brought the 5,700kg Russian Express AM4 down on Sunday in... Read more

26 March, 2012

GPS and sat-nav: The newest business-critical risk?

...being built: How would your business cope if GPS systems failed?Photo: EADS Astrium Society has become too reliant on satellite navigation systems such as... Read more

8 March, 2011 by Natasha Lomas

Eutelsat launches high-capacity satellite for broadband

...Eutelsat announced on Monday. KA-SAT broadband satellite has launched. Photo credit: EADS Astrium The Ka-band satellite — known as KA-SAT — launched on 26... Read more

29 December, 2010 by Ben Woods

BT fibre, BlackBerry tablet and Google Street View in Antarctica

In October silicon.com paid a visit to aerospace company EADS Astrium to see how it puts satellites together. This is a shot... Read more

2 November, 2010 by silicon.com staff

Satellite push to close Europe's broadband gaps

The TWISTER project could turn today's high-speed digital divide on its head, by pushing the concept of local wireless networks linked to a two-way satellite link Read more

17 February, 2004 by Graeme Wearden
Astrium Limited: Avoid Network Upgrade and Save 63 Percent on Bandwidth Costs

Astrium Limited: Avoid Network Upgrade and Save 63 Percent on Bandwidth Costs

Subsidiary of EADS, Astrium has outsourced their WAN. In the UK, they have 34 Mbps... Read more

1 May, 2005

EC awards ?1bn Galileo sat-nav contracts

...with a further 18 satellites to be ordered from either OHB or EADS-Astrium GmBH, depending on value-for-money, said the Commission statement. British... Read more

7 January, 2010 by Tom Espiner

Satellite to get the army talking

...the satellite owned and operated by Paradigm Secure Communications (a subsidiary of EADS Astrium), and the MoD paying to use its services. A second Skynet... Read more

12 March, 2007 by Tim Ferguson

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