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Arianespace Launches Metop-SGA1 with Ariane 6 to Advance European Climate and Weather Monitoring

(IN BRIEF) Arianespace will launch EUMETSAT’s Metop-SGA1 satellite on August 12, 2025, via Ariane 6 from Kourou, marking the second commercial mission for Europe’s new heavy-lift launcher. Metop-SGA1, the first in a new generation of European polar-orbiting weather satellites, will … Read the full press release

New Inmarsat study on the value of space reveals that majority of Australians had never heard of or had no idea about space-based Internet

Australians more likely to associate space with aliens than satellite communications Space industry needs “to create a new narrative about space and show Australians how space already touches their lives everyday” (PRESS RELEASE) LONDON, 3-Aug-2022 — /EuropaWire/ — Inmarsat (LSE: … Read the full press release

Une nouvelle étude d’Inmarsat sur la valeur de l’espace révèle que la majorité des Australiens n’avaient jamais entendu parler ou n’avaient aucune idée de l’Internet spatial

Les Australiens sont plus susceptibles d’associer l’espace aux extraterrestres que les communications par satellite L’industrie spatiale doit “créer un nouveau récit sur l’espace et montrer aux Australiens comment l’espace touche déjà leur vie au quotidien” (COMMUNIQUÉ DE PRESSE) LONDON, 3-Aug-2022 … Read the full press release

Europe´s first polar orbiting weather satellite MetOp-A built by Airbus Defence and Space turns 10 on October 19, 2016

MetOp-A, Europe’s first polar orbiting weather satellite, still going strong after 10 years – double its specified lifetime High precision weather data helps businesses, farmers and security organisations TOULOUSE, 18-Oct-2016 — /EuropaWire/ — It has orbited Earth almost 52,000 times, delivered … Read the full press release