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09/07/2008
Telespazio takes part in the Farnborough Airshow 2008
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Telespazio is to take part in the Farnborough International Airshow 2008
that will be held near London from 14 to 20 July. As one of the world’s
leading operators in satellite services, Telespazio will be exhibiting
within the Finmeccanica stand its activities in the sectors of earth
observation, integrated communications, navigation and in-orbit satellite control.
In particular, the company will be illustrating its role in the Galileo,
COSMO-SkyMed and SICRAL programmes.
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As part of the Galileo
European satellite navigation programme,
Telespazio is building one of the control
centres for the 30 satellites constellation
at the Fucino
Space Centre In addition, it supplied
the launch services and is currently involved
in the operational management of the GIOVE-B
mission, developed by ESA for in-orbit validation
of the technological solutions that will
be used on board the Galileo satellites.
Telespazio will also supply the in-orbit
operational and integrated logistics services
for the IOV phase of the Galileo programme,
which will see the launch of the first four
operational satellites of the constellation
by 2010.
At the Farnborough Airshow, Telespazio will
introduce some of the applications based
on the EGNOS system, the
forerunner to Galileo, for the monitoring
and control of dangerous goods (M-Trade
and METIS
programmes).
In the area of geospatial information, the
company will also present applications developed
using the radar data from COSMO-SkyMed,
the innovative satellite system financed
by ASI and the Italian defence ministry
for environmental protection, emergency
management, territorial defence and security.
Telespazio has played a key role in this
programme, taking responsibility for the
entire ground segment. The COSMO-SkyMed
satellites (the first two were launched
in 2007, while the third and fourth will
go into orbit in 2008 and 2009 respectively)
are controlled by the Fucino Space Centre,
while the data acquired by the satellites,
used for civil applications, are collected
and processed by the Matera
Space Centre.
The data from COSMO-SkyMed will be sold
on the international market by e-geos,
a joint venture between ASI and Telespazio
based in Rome and Matera. This company will
be introduced at a press conference to be
held in the auditorium of the Finmeccanica
stand on Wednesday 16 July.
Telespazio is the main provider of satellite
services and applications to the Italian
defence ministry, and plays a strategic
role in the SICRAL
programme. For SICRAL 1, the first Italian
satellite for military communications, Telespazio
managed the launch and early orbit phase
(LEOP), as well as the design, integration
and testing phases of the ground segment.
The new SICRAL 1B satellite will be launched
by the end of 2008, and Telespazio will
use part of its transmission capacity to
offer telecommunications services to NATO
countries.
In the sector of homeland
security, Telespazio designs and builds
integrated broadband telecommunications
networks for civil protection agencies,
fire services and rescue teams responding
to emergencies or natural disasters. In
the external display area of the Finmeccanica
stand at Farnborough, Telespazio will be
introducing its Nomadic Communication Trailer,
an air-transportable unit which, during
emergencies, can create a virtual telecommunications
hub capable of connecting mobile phones,
radios and computers used by the rescue
teams.
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