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• Bidding starts to put EU's Galileo navigation system into space

  - 2008-07-02

  Satellite network, designed to give Europe independence, has been delayed by Brussels rows The European Commission kicked off plans yesterday for a rival to the United States' global positioning system GPS with calls for suppliers for 3.4bn-worth (2.7bn) of hi-tech space-technology deals. The Galileo programme's network...

  Tags: EADS Astrium, European Space Agency, Logica

• EADS Astrium

  - 2007-09-22

  EADS Astrium has won a contract from the German Aerospace Center DLR in Cologne to investigate concepts for a new upper stage for the European launcher Vega. The project is named Venus Vesta New Upper Stage. Currently under development, Vega is a small European launch vehicle which is scheduled for...

  Tags: EADS Astrium, European Space Agency

• Satellite upswing: the telecom satellite market is showing the first signs of a recovery that is widely expected to gather momentum in 2006

  - 2006-03-22

  In retrospect, 2005 looks like it could go down as a transition year for the telecom satellite sector--the market was relatively stable, with real growth expected to take off this year. The year was also marked by the appearance of some new platforms. There are now six EADS Astrium Eurostar...

  Tags: Alcatel, EADS Astrium, European Space Agency

• Gunter Stamerjohanns: the first CEO of Galileo Industries in Munich

  - 2003-10-01

  Gunter Stamerjohanns is often praised for diplomatic skills and his fine North German ("almost British") sense of humour. He certainly will need bath in probably the most challenging job of his career. On one side he will face the EU bureaucracy in Brussels and the hardly-less bureaucratic European Space Agency...

  Tags: EADS Astrium, European Space Agency