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14.02.2013 - Cassidian reaches target drone production milestone
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Target UAVs are used to train air defence units and flight crews as well as to test guided missiles. Cassidian has been constructing drones that can be equipped with a wide variety of sensors and transmitters - including infra-red and radar emitters for simulating threat scenarios - since 2002. © Shephard News Team
Cassidian has reached a significant milestone in its target drone production programme, having produced its 1,000th target drone at its site in Friedrichshafen. © Shephard News Team
e.s.c has developed a jet version of the Autonomous aerial target system UAV HAES 400.
Threat-representative autonomous aerial target drone (TAAT) HAES 400 jet. |
14.01.2013 - Long Range Communication System via Aircraft
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The goal of the project LRACOMS was to research and develop the communication relay system based on WiMAX technology and its integration and testing on unmanned aircraft vehicles. The testing took place in the Czech Republic. The developed payload application is able to process and visualize data gained through the proposed wireless data link. The camera system onboard the plane provides visual data for the payload application and the UAV can be controlled remotely by commands from a human operator using the payload application on a laptop. The developed system can be deployed in situations with large distances of variable communication coverage or can be used by multiple receivers at the same time.
Download the press release "Long Range Communication System via Aircraft".
Systems of this type have been recently used only in the military field. Now they are being used also in other areas of human activity, e.g. In the areas of Security and Disaster Management. |
05.01.2013 - Towards the definition of ESA's future OBCP Building Block
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OBCP-BB (Requirements and Interface Definition for Future OBCP Building Block) aims the assessment and definition of the On-Board Control Procedures Building Block together with the implementation of an OBCP BB prototype (OBCP engine, prototype development framework and the OBCP language).
The On-Board Control Procedures (OBCP) concept is a powerful way to control spacecraft or to implement onboard functions. OBCPs are flight control procedures that can be resident on-board or that can be uploaded to the spacecraft as required by the ground. They serve for controlling processes, which may be active for an extended period of time and which may involve the execution of a sequence of commands.
Download the paper "Towards the definition of ESA's future OBCP Building Block", OBCP-BB project.
Download the presentation "Towards the definition of ESA's future OBCP Building Block", presented on DASIA 2012.
The paper provides a first feedback of two parallel ESA activities that, starting from the recent ECSS standard on OBCPs [EcssObcp], make a step towards a standard OBCP building block by setting the requirements and defining its interfaces. Each of the parallel activities performs the following main tasks:
Assessment of existing OBCP implementations
Assessment of the ECSS OBCP standard
Assessment of potential innovations and description of the vision of the future use of OBCPs
OBCP building block definition, including requirements specification and interfaces
Prototype implementation and demonstration
The two activities have been supported by the OBCP-BB ESA General Support Technology Programme (GSTP) study ("Requirements and Interface Definition for Future OBCP Building Block"). The SSF study has been conducted in collaboration with the Technical University of Braunschweig. The study lead by GMV has involved Space Applications (SA) and evolving systems consulting (e.s.c). |
01.01.2013 - PF 2013
04.12.2012 - Meteosat Third Generation (MTG)
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The MTG series will comprise four imaging and two sounding satellites. The MTG-I imaging satellites will carry the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightning Imager. The MTG-S sounding satellites - a first for Meteosat - will carry an Infrared Sounder (IRS) and an Ultraviolet Visible Near-Infrared spectrometer, which will be provided by ESA as the GMES Sentinel-4 mission.
On the MTG-I satellites, FCI will scan the full Earth disc every 10 minutes using 16 spectral channels at very high spatial resolutions, from 2 km to 0.5 km. In fast imagery mode it will be capable of a repeat cycle of 2.5 minutes over a quarter of the disc.
FCI will give increased support to nowcasting and very short-range forecasts (up to six hours) of high-impact weather such as thunderstorms or fog. It will also offer better capabilities for monitoring aerosols, making an important contribution to air-quality monitoring.
With its higher-resolution capability in the thermal-infrared, FCI will provide improved fire detection and an increase in the quality of various climate-relevant products.
The Lightning Imager will continuously monitor lightning activity in near-real time, supporting nowcasting of severe storms and warnings of lightning strikes, information that, in particular, will improve air navigation services close to airports and en route.
MTG-I imaging satellite © ESA
On the MTG-S satellites, IRS will provide detailed vertical profiles of atmospheric temperature and humidity at a high spatial resolution of 4 km. These data will feed into advanced regional Numerical Weather Prediction models expected to be used in the future for nowcasting and very short-range weather forecasting.
By monitoring atmospheric instability, the new sounder will also contribute to better early warnings of severe thunderstorms and is expected to provide unique information from geostationary orbit on ozone, carbon monoxide and volcanic ash composition within the atmosphere. © ESA
Under the MTG Space Segment Programme, e.s.c is participating on payload modeling for Data Collection System & GEO Search and Rescue (DCS & GEOSAR), and on analysis of its behavior. |
07.11.2012 - US Navy to Issue RFP for New Unmanned Strike Aircraft before Year End
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The US Navy (USN) hopes to issue a draft request for proposal (RFP) for its nascent unmanned carrier-launched surveillance and strike (UCLASS) aircraft programme before the end of 2012.
USN budget documents indicate that the service hopes to have the new aircraft in limited operational service by 2020. According to USN officials, that means that a small squadron of perhaps a half-dozen UCLASS aircraft would be ready to train with a carrier air wing by that date, but the unit would not necessarily deploy with the ship.
Northrop Grumman X-47B © NGC
The service has indicated that many of the government-owned technologies being developed as part of the Northrop Grumman X-47B unmanned combat air system demonstrator (UCAS-D) programme will be furnished to potential UCLASS competitors.
Northrop is expected to pitch a derivative of the X-47 for the UCLASS programme. Lockheed Martin is hoping to offer an aircraft called the Sea Ghost. General Atomics is expected to offer a derivative of its Predator-C Avenger. Boeing is likely to bid a new design that draws on lessons learned from its X-45C Phantom Ray. © 2012 The Editor, Source: Flight Global |
05.11.2012 - HAES 400 JET AERIAL TARGET (VIDEO)
16.10.2012 - Industrial revolution brings industry back to Europe
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Europe needs to reverse the declining role of industry for the 21st century with the aim to deliver sustainable growth, create high-value job and solve societal challenge that we face. Immediate action should contribute to reverse the current downward trend from its current level of 15.6% of EU GDP to as much as 20% by 2020. © European Commission, Enterprise and Industry DG, Brussels |
19.09.2012 - HAES CCUAS LABS celebrates 3 years anniversary & opens RPAS/UAS TRAINING CENTER
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The Hacker Model Prod. and Evolving Systems' Competence Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Laboratories continues in a construction of new jet UAVs.
Ondrej and Karel Hacker became World Champions in F5D electropylon racing category in Romania Buzau, 12.-21.9.2012.
e.s.c according to the RPAS/UAS evolution has built up a bright new RPAS/UAS training center to train the next generation of the remote pilots. Modern day teaching methods and cutting edge equipment ensure the highest standard of air vehicle operators in ground control stations. In lectures are discussed current tools for training civilian and military pilots. |
08.08.2012 - Bundeskanzlerin Merkel besucht die Technologieregion am Bodensee
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Bundeskanzlerin Merkel startet ihr Besuchsprogramm beim Raumfahrtunternehmen Astrium in Immenstaad (Bodenseekreis). Dort informiert sie sich über das Satellitenprojekt SWARM.
Drei aufeinander abgestimmte Satelliten sollen ab 2012 das Magnetfeld der Erde aus dem All neu vermessen.
Mitarbeiter erläutern der Kanzlerin in einem Reinraum ein Instrument für das neue Projekt SWARM. © 2012 Presse- und Informationsamt der Bundesregierung
Die neuen Erkenntnisse werden unser Verständnis des Erdinneren und des Klimas verbessern. Die für diese Mission erforderlichen drei Satelliten sollen im Jahr 2012 von Plesetsk aus an Bord eines Rokot-Launchers starten.
Astrium entwickelt und baut im Auftrag der Europäischen Weltraumorganisation (ESA) die drei Satelliten für die SWARM-Mission.
Die Satelliten der SWARM-Konstellation werden die Erde auf drei verschiedenen polaren Umlaufbahnen umkreisen, zwei nebeneinander in einer Höhe von 450 km und ein weiterer in 530 km Höhe. Hochpräzise und hochauflösende Messungen von Stärke, Ausrichtung und Schwankungen des Erdmagnetfelds, ergänzt durch präzise Navigation, Beschleunigungsmessungen und Messungen der elektrischen Feldstärke, liefern die notwendigen Beobachtungsdaten, um das Erdmagnetfeld und seine Wechselwirkungen mit weiteren physikalischen Parametern unseres Planeten in Modellen erklären zu können. Die Beobachtung aus dem Weltraum liefert einen einzigartigen Einblick in das Innere der Erde, so dass die Zusammensetzung und Prozesse im Detail untersucht und neue Erkenntnisse über ionosphärische Ströme und Ozeanzirkulationen gewonnen werden können, die großen Einfluss auf unser Klima und Wetter haben.
Fakten & Zahlen
Customer European Space Agency
Mission Geomagnetic field measurement
Orbit Polar Low Earth Orbit
Spacecraft Swarm consists of 3 satellites in a constellation
Payload
- ASM (Absolute Scalar Magnetometer)
- VFM (Vector Field Magnetometer)
- EFI (Electrical Field Instrument
- ACC (Accelerometer)
- LRR (Laser Retro Reflector)
- Star Tracker System
- GPS Receiver L1/L2
Features
- Magnetically clean spacecraft
- Deployable boom (4 m)
- Ultra-stable optical bench
- High ballistic coefficient
- 6 Mbit/s S-band downlink
- L1/l2 GPSR
- Earth oriented safe mode
Launch Mass 1500 kg
Dimensions Height = 1 m, Width = 1.5 m, Depth = 9 m
Launch Date 2012
Mission Duration 4 years
European Earth Observation Satellites Face Delays at Three Launch Sites
Three European Earth observation missions that had been scheduled for launch this summer are now facing delays of undetermined length because of unrelated issues at three different launch sites, European government officials said.
The latest delay is to the European Space Agency (ESA) SWARM mission to study Earth's magnetic field. The three SWARM satellites were scheduled for launch in June aboard a Russian Rockot vehicle from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia.
Rockot, a converted SS-19 ballistic missile, has been grounded since February 2011 when its Breeze upper stage failed to place the Russian government's GEO-IK2 geodesy satellite into its intended orbit.
For reasons that have not been disclosed, the investigation into that failure took more than a year to complete. Officials said at the time that because the anomaly occurred while the Breeze upper stage was outside the range of Russian ground stations, almost no telemetry data was available.
Russia's Khrunichev Space Center of Moscow announced June 1 that the Rockot would return to flight in early July with the launch of two Russian satellites, the Gonets-M and Mir.
A Rockot launch of another Russian government payload will follow that, and only then will SWARM be launched.
e.s.c is the exclusive supplier of all needed software packages for Microaccelerometer (ACC) for ESA magnetic mission SWARM, incl. Flight Startup SW, Flight Application SW and EGSE Test Equipment SW. |
11.07.2012 - Virgin Galactic at FIA 2012
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Virgin Galactic announced LauncherOne, a new air-launched rocket specifically designed to deliver small satellites into orbit. Commercial flights of the new orbital launch vehicle are expected to begin by 2016, Virgin Galactic aims to offer frequent and dedicated launches at the world's lowest prices.
The world's first commercial spaceline at the Farnborough International Airshow in Farnborough, England. |
04.06.2012 - No chance for targets to escape
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Live combat fires of the 252nd Air Defence Missile Battalion starts at the Brezina ground of the Military Training Area at Hradiste after a long siren signal on one May day. Light tracked transporters are ready at their fire positions and the fire control oversees the scene from the tower.
Twelve launches = twelve splashes. During a three-day exercise soldiers launched twelwe 9M37 missiles and all of them hit their targets. © Courtesy 25 AD Missile Brigade
The exercise of the 252nd Air Defence Missile Battalion from the 25th Air Defence Missile Brigade based at Strakonice was topped off with combat fires. Soldiers from Battery 3 and 4 fired from 9K35M Strela-10MD air defence missile systems. Their 9M37 missiles with infrared homing and highly explosive head were fired to targets imitating a departing helicopter and objects at a hang. © MoD Czech Republic |
18.05.2012 - ESA contracts Astrium UK to build Solar Orbiter
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ESA has awarded the contract to build its next-generation Sun explorer to Astrium UK. Solar Orbiter will investigate how the Sun creates and controls the heliosphere, the extended atmosphere of the Sun.
The signature marks the start of the development and construction phase of Solar Orbiter, due for launch in 2017. Astrium UK will lead a team of European companies who will supply various parts of the spacecraft. The contract carries a value of about EUR 300 million, one of the largest ever signed between the ESA Science Programme and a UK company.
Solar Orbiter exploring the Sun's realm © ESA
In addition, ten scientific instruments will be funded by the Member States of ESA and the United States.
e.s.c is providing an engineering support during STIX project phase B for mission critical StartUp SW (stored in PROM) and for Application SW (stored in FLASH memory). STIX (Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X rays) is one of the Solar Orbiter's on-board remote sensing instruments. STIX provides imaging spectroscopy of solar thermal and nonthermal X-ray emissions from approx. 4 to 150 keV, with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution (near perihelion), and good spectral resolution.
Download the Solar Orbiter's datasheet. |
02.05.2012 - Adaptive Routing and Conflict Management for Unmanned Aircraft Vehicles (ARCA)
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The goal of ARCA project is to develop an on-board flight system able to guide a UAV towards a specific destination modifying its own flight trajectory in reaction to a variety of external situations, maintaining the separation with other aircrafts. In restricted airspaces this system will allow a UAV to separate from other UAV by co-coordinating with them and solving possible trajectory conflicts. The system will also offer the same capabilities for the non restricted airspace, including separation from commercial aircraft. This capability will only be exploitable if particular operational conditions are met (e.g. all commercial traffic is equipped with the devices for providing navigation information such as the ADS-B; adequate ATM procedures are defined to deal with equipment failures). However, the presence of this system will allow the first tests and experiences in this direction facilitating a smooth introduction of UAV in the non restricted airspace.
The main functions required to the on-board flight system will be: Path Planning and Conflict Detection & Resolution. These functions will be ensured by refining and improving an algorithm, based on Multi-agents Systems and Game Theory, developed by two of the consortium partners in a national project. The algorithm will be integrated with a positioning system and a communication system able to exchange traffic information with all the interested parties (other UAV, manned aircraft, ground station) using an ADS-B compatible format. The whole system will be tested both through simulations and real flight trials, with two UAV developed by an ARCA partner in a previous project.
e.s.c's role in the ARCA project has been:
- the EPU board on which the ARCA algorithms run
- software library pack with low level routines
The ARCA final workshop has been held in Rome on May the 2nd 2012. Download the ARCA Final Workshop materials. |
02.04.2012 - Watch satcoms support aircraft pilots - thanks to Iris
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Iris, ESA's programme for Air Traffic Management, will unveil a new interactive display demonstrating safety communications via satellite for aircraft pilots at the ATC Global Exhibition and Conference in Amsterdam. The new Iris Public Relations tool is designed to show users exactly how ATM communications via satellite will work. It shows how the air traffic controllers (ATCO) would be able to compose and send data messages, and then how aircraft pilots could receive and be able to reply to these messages, as well as displays what's happening in between.
The advanced cockpit of the modern airplanes features the latest interactive displays and avionics. Satellite telecommunications will be an integral part of the new European air traffic management system for safety communications in most phases of flights.
ESA initiated the Iris programme in 2007 to support the adoption of satellite-based communications in the Single European Sky ATM Research (SESAR) programme. It demonstrated the interest and feasibility of a satellite-based communication system to meet aviation's requirements. Thanks to Iris, the value of satellite communications was recognised and included in the ATM master plan. By 2020 Iris will contribute to the modernisation of air traffic management by providing digital datalinks to cockpit crews in continental and oceanic airspace. Iris's design phase is currently underway with the support of the EC, the SESAR Joint Undertaking, Eurocontrol, the European space industry, air navigation service providers and aviation stakeholders. © 2012 ESA
Download the Iris brochure - the satellite-based communication solution for the Single European Sky Air Traffic Management Research programme © ESA |
08.03.2012 - 3rd User/Stakeholder Workshop on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) at Redu
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The European Defence Agency (EDA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have co-organized the third user/stakeholder workshop on Unmanned Aircraft Systems on March 8th 2012, at the ESA Redu Centre, Belgium.
The workshop addressed the long-term vision and provided strategic insight to the ESA and EDA approach in support of UAS beyond line of sight operations using Satellites (including for Command and Control data links and Air Traffic Management) and the related applications. It also expanded the consultation and dialogue of the two institutions with the UAS community and other stakeholders (EASA, Eurocontrol) on the short and mid-term way ahead regarding secure data links for safe integrated UAS operations.
The workshop has been attended also by e.s.c representative Richard Sysala
To unleash the full potential of UAS, Europe needs a framework of rules and regulations designed to ensure safe operation needs to be developed, supported by proven reliable technologies. © 2012 ESA |
17.02.2012 - SWARM constellation heads north
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The three satellites that make up ESA's SWARM magnetic field mission were presented to the media today. Following a demanding testing programme, the satellites were displayed in the cleanroom before they are shipped to Russia for their July launch.
SWARM is ESA's first constellation of Earth observation satellites designed to measure the magnetic signals from Earth's core, mantle, crust, oceans, ionosphere and magnetosphere, providing data that will allow scientists to study the complexities of our protective magnetic field.
The three satellites that make up ESA's SWARM magnetic field mission were presented to the media on 17 February 2012 at the IABG centre in Ottobrunn in Germany. Following a demanding testing programme, the satellites were displayed in the cleanroom before they are shipped to Russia for their July launch.
The magnetic shield protects the planet from charged particles that stream in as the solar wind. Without this shield, life on Earth would be impossible.
This shield is generated mainly deep inside Earth by an ocean of swirling iron in the liquid outer core. How the magnetic field is created and how it changes over time is complex and not fully understood.
The SWARM Mission to study Earth's magnetic field
This force is constantly changing - at the moment, it shows signs of significant weakening.
But with a new generation of sensors, the SWARM constellation will provide greater insight into these natural processes and the 'weather' in space.
SWARM will be ESA's fourth Earth Explorer mission in orbit, following GOCE, SMOS and CryoSat. © 2012 ESA
The Microaccelerometer (ACC) for SWARM
e.s.c is the exclusive supplier of all needed software packages for Microaccelerometer (ACC) for ESA magnetic mission SWARM, incl. Flight Startup SW, Flight Application SW and EGSE Test Equipment SW. |
01.01.2012 - PF 2012
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04.10.2011 - ESA chooses next two science missions
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The powerful influence of the Sun and the nature of the mysterious "dark energy" motivate ESA's next two science missions. Solar Orbiter and Euclid were selected today by ESA's Science Programme Committee for implementation, with launches planned for 2017 and 2019.
These two missions are medium-class missions and are the first in ESA's Cosmic Vision 2015-2025 Plan.
Solar activity makes the wind of particles from the Sun turbulent. This can affect Earth by giving us aurora and disrupting radio communications. ESA's Solar Orbiter will go closer to the Sun than any other mission to study the driving force behind solar activity. © European Space Agency (ESA)
Solar Orbiter will venture closer to the Sun than any previous mission. It is designed to make major breakthroughs in our understanding of how the Sun influences its environment, in particular how the Sun generates and propels the flow of particles in which the planets are bathed, known as the solar wind.
Solar activity affects the solar wind, making it very turbulent, and solar flares create strong perturbations in this wind, triggering spectacular auroral displays on Earth and other planets.
Solar Orbiter will be close enough to the Sun to sample this solar wind shortly after it has been ejected from the solar surface, while at the same time observing in great detail the process accelerating the wind on the Sun's surface. The mission's launch is planned for 2017 from Cape Canaveral with a NASA-provided Atlas launch vehicle. © European Space Agency (ESA)
e.s.c is providing an engineering support during STIX project phase B for mission critical StartUp SW (stored in PROM) and for Application SW (stored in FLASH memory). STIX (Spectrometer Telescope for Imaging X rays) is one of the Solar Orbiter's on-board remote sensing instruments. STIX provides imaging spectroscopy of solar thermal and nonthermal X-ray emissions from approx. 4 to 150 keV, with unprecedented sensitivity and spatial resolution (near perihelion), and good spectral resolution.
Download the Solar Orbiter's datasheet. |
19.09.2011 - HAES CCUAS LABS open doors (2 years anniversary)
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The Hacker Model Prod. and Evolving Systems' Competence Center for Unmanned Aerial Systems Laboratories has been open for a public audience.
HAES 400 UAS © e.s.c |
11.09.2011 - UAS may go hunting hostile ballistic missiles
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One of the MQ-9 Reapers used by the Missile Defense Agency for ABIR trials prepares for takeoff in Gray Butte © Raytheon
Now the Reaper may get a new mission as a frontline cueing system for the burgeoning U.S. missile defense architecture. Missile Defense Agency (MDA) officials say the Reaper and its Raytheon MTS-B sensor are showing promise. The system could plug a longtime gap by providing firing quality data to facilitate early intercept of ballistic missiles. MDA is exploring the technology and operational concepts for using electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) -equipped UAS to eventually achieve "launch-on-remote" capabilities with Aegis ship- and land-based SM-3 interceptors. This means the fidelity of UAS data would need to be high enough for commanders to launch an interceptor before Aegis radars capture the target.
Ballistic missile patrol is one of many potential missions for the large and growing Predator/Reaper fleet. As the Pentagon plans to draw down combat forces in Afghanistan-combat operations ended a year ago in Iraq-officials insist that intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets (ISR) will continue to support ongoing activities in these areas. But Pentagon planners are considering how these ISR resources can be reallocated or, if need be, modified to fill capability gaps for other missions. © Aviation Week, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies.
Raytheon's MTS-B EO/IR sensor was used for the first time in March to autonomously detect and track a ballistic missile through the boost phase and into its ballistic trajectory. The sensor is also able to handle some numbers of "raids" of threats with its wide-, medium- and narrow-fields of view © Raytheon |
30.08.2011 - ANTARES System and Segments
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The Iris activities of ESA are implemented within the framework of element 10 of the Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme.
The European Space Agency (ESA) launched the Iris Programme in 2007 to develop and validate this new satellite solution. The Iris Programme is carried out in collaboration with the SESAR Joint Undertaking under the umbrella of ESA's cooperation with the European Union. The system is being developed by European industry under ESA contract.
The global standard will ensure that aircraft equipped with a standard terminal will be able to communicate anywhere via compatible satellite systems. In practice, the flight crew will send and receive information to and from flight management facilities across Europe. Using this system will be transparent to the pilot and the controller. This information will be relayed via satellites placed in geo stationary orbit. The system will be designed to ensure low costs both for equipping the aircraft and for the ongoing service of handling communications.
ANTARES System and Segments
e.s.c will be present on the Information event on the Iris Programme, which will take place on 10 and 11 October 2011 in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. Participation is open to all actors involved in the Iris Programme and interested stakeholders in satellite communications for Air Traffic Management. |
10.08.2011 - Looking back for the IDET 2011 fair
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This year's IDET exhibition of military and defense technology coincided in parallel with the PYROS / ISET fairs of fire and safety equipment and services (also in Brno). That reflects the current trend of coordination need of all components of the integrated rescue system (police, fire brigade and army) participating together, for example in dealing with natural or other major disasters.
The TTC TELEKOMUNIKACE company presented its portfolio of products and services for use in the military, especially the DTP40M2 communication system at IDET, and also confirmed an interest in the continuing cooperation development with the Czech Army in supplying of communications and security solutions based on SIMPHONY integration platform through the active participation there.
TTC's stand on IDET 2011 © e.s.c
Although the Czech Army is affected by a radical investment downturn and downsizing the state army due to budget cuts (according to the Strategic Defense White Paper introduced recently), they presented the best and most advanced equipment disposed now at the fair.
Because this industry is experiencing a global trend of mutual convergence of military and civilian technologies, the situation provides the opportunity as well as for commercial products and services to be integrated into a portfolio of military armaments and equipments. There are e.g. Manufacturers and suppliers of information technologies and electronics, suppliers and related services prospectively gaining importance of here at the same time. Military staff is even more agreeable to outsourcing some of its activities to civilian companies, so the TTC TELECOMMUNIKACE will also use this trend and strengthen its position in the industry as the traditional and reliable supplier of communications solutions and services. © TTC, 2011 |
11.07.2011 - OBSW-RAC order
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e.s.c has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the OBSW-RAC - GSTP study "On-board software reference architecture consolidation". The GSTP study aiming at improving the on-board software reuse in a systematic manner, following previous activities COrDeT and Domeng. The objective of the project is to identify all building blocks and interfaces of the core on-board software reference architecture and to verify and consolidate the software architectural concepts described in the SAVOIR-FAIRE document and developed in COrDeT2.
Venus Express in Venus Orbit |
20.06.2011 - HAES 400 AERIAL TARGET, free flight (VIDEO)
13.06.2011 - EREA prepared a document called ATS Study - Vision for the Future
09.06.2011 - Make Pre-Commercial Procurement your tool for ITS deployment
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The P3ITS project is releasing its "Pre-Commercial Procurement for ITS" handbook at the occasion of its final workshop. This event will be organised on 09 June 2011 in Lyon, after the closing of the ITS European Congress. Public Authorities, innovation agencies and ITS suppliers will join the workshop to exchange their views and plans on the use of Pre-Commercial Procurement for ITS, and to network in view of future collaborations.
P3ITS project final workshop
P3ITS is a Support Action funded by the European Commission, DG Information Society and Media, under the 7th Framework Programme for Research and technological development, and is aiming at maintaining a network of both ITS and legal and procurement experts to trigger a debate which would clarify how Pre-Commercial Procurement could be used for ITS. It is coordinating by ERTICO - ITS Europe. © P3ITS, © ERTICO
More: http://www.ertico.com/make-pre-commercial-procurement-your-tool-for-its-deployment/ |
17.-20.05.2011 - DASIA 2011, Malta
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The International Space System Engineering Conference, DASIA 2011 is geared towards technologies and methodologies for development of systems, software and hardware components of computer-based data retrieval, processing and exploitation in aerospace, telecommunication and other areas of high reliability and complexity.
For more information: http://www.eurospace.org/dasia.html
"Where space meets ground and related non-space applications of similar technology" |
10.-13.05.2011 - International exhibition IDET 2011 welcomes visitors in Brno
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The 11th International Defence and Security Technology Fair - IDET 2011 - shows up-to-date technology and equipment used by personnel of the Armed Forces of the Czech Republic.
A three-day fair welcomes hundreds of visitors at the Brno Exhibition Centre grounds on 10 May 2011, where the Czech military presents the equipment and armament it uses for performing its tasks both on the Czech territory and foreign assignments.
Containers with ASPIDE missiles mounted on a vehicle of KUB anti-aircraft system © MoD Czech Republic |
14.04.2011 - OBCP-BB order
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e.s.c has been awarded a contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the OBCP-BB - GSTP study "Requirements and I/F definition for future OBCP building block", primed by a major defence company. In this project is specified one of the building blocks of the future modular reusable/reference on-board SW architecture, the on-board control procedures (OBCP) engine.
© European Space Agency (ESA) |
22.03.2011 - Long Range Communication System based on WiMAX development order
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A transfer of high quality data through airborne station is being integrated.
The current WiMAX (Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access) revision provides up to 40 Mbit/s |
04.03.2011 - HAES Unmanned Aerial Systems
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New generation of modular UAS avionics have been developed and manufactured for HAES vehicles.
Gyro - accelerometer part of HAES avionics © e.s.c
The HAES UAV system is being qualified to comply with interoperability standard STANAG 4586. The HAES Vehicle Specific Modules were developed by e.s.c. Further tests of HAES vehicles and UCS stations are scheduled to validate various autonomous functions.
HAES 400 vehicle © e.s.c |
26.-27.01.2011 - Industry Day for Meteosat Third Generation, Noordwijkerhout
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e.s.c has attended the MTG Industry Day. MTG is the generic name identifying the future European Operational Geo-stationary Meteorological system that will replace gradually the Meteosat Second Generation System (MSG) at the end of its operational life. The objective of MTG mission is to provide Europe, by extension, the International Community, with an operational satellite system able to support accurate prediction of meteorological phenomena and the monitoring of climate and air composition through operational applications for the period of time between 2017 and 2037.
Meteosat Third Generation programme is included in priorities of e.s.c
This mission will be fulfilled by a series of 4 imaging satellites (supporting the Flexible Combined Imager (FCI) and the Lightening Imager (LI)) and 2 sounding satellites (supporting the Infrared Sounder (IRS) and accommodating the Sentinel 4 UVN instrument). Both kind of satellites will be based on a common platform.
The Mission Objectives (jointly established by ESA and EUMETSAT) include:
to ensure the continuity of meteorological imaging data, from Geostationary Orbit, beyond the end of mission life of the Meteosat Second Generation (MSG) satellites,
to provide an enhancement in imaging data (successor of SEVIRI on MSG), used for now-casting and Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP),
to provide new infrared sounding capabilities from Geostationary Orbit to track small scale water vapour features and determine Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMV),
to provide lightning imagery from geostationary for early warning of convective rainfall,
to provide atmospheric chemistry and Air Quality using IR sounding in combination with Sentinel-4 for UV/VIS sounding,
to provide enhanced capabilities for long term climate monitoring of the earth.
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21.01.2011 - Four CASAs operational
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The change of generations can also be named the ceremony at the 24 Air Transportation Base at Prague-Kbely to mark introduction of four CASA C-295M aircraft into operation replacing old An-26 aircraft.
The ceremony was held at the Prague-Kbely base 22 December 2010 when the parade was attended by Czech Air Force Commander Brigadier General Jiri Verner with other guests. Four new CASA aircraft in four different versions, which replace medium transport Russia-made An-26 were presented at the airport landing ground.
General Jiri Verner congratulated the squadron in which CASAs serve a lot of success with famous air slogan: How many take-offs, so many happy landings. © MoD Czech Republic
Czech Air Force CASA C-295M aircraft © MoD Czech Republic |
19.01.2011 - 2nd P3ITS Workshop "Understanding the legal aspects of Pre-Commercial Procurement for Intelligent Transport Systems"
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e.s.c has participated on P3ITS workshop in Delft (NL), in the site of Connekt / ITS Netherlands. The P3ITS consortium has provided a deeper analysis of the PCP process, and has linked it to the ITS requirements. The workshop has been organised on the sidelines of the Technopolicy Network's International Expert Meeting on "Innovation Procurement by SBIR and PCP" in The Hague (NL).
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04.01.2011 - Eclipse seen from Hinode
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Hinode, a project to study the Sun, is exploring the magnetic fields of the Sun, and is improving our understanding of the mechanisms that power the solar atmosphere and drive solar eruptions.
Hinode (Sunrise) observes the Solar Eclipse on 4.1.11 © JAXA |
01.01.2011 - PF 2011
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