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 ...

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 ...

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 ...