Satellite to replace and provide additional capacity for TV, enterprise and mobility services
Cape Canaveral, 31/03/2017 – The SES-10 telecommunications satellite built by Airbus for the Luxembourg-based operator SES has been successfully launched by Falcon 9 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, USA. It will provide replacement and additional capacity for direct-to-home TV broadcasting, enterprise and mobility services to Central and South America, Mexico and the Caribbean.
March 29, 2017 – Ottawa – National Defence / Canadian Armed Forces
In 2017, the Royal Canadian Air Force is marking the 100th anniversary of the first military pilot training in Canada.
Melges 32 World League gets underway in Porto Venere, Italy
Porto Venere, Italy (Mar. 30, 2017) – Everything is set and ready for the first official appointment of the 2017 Melges World League (MWL) in Europe – a brand new format featuring the supersonic Melges 32 (March 31 – April 2), but also the wildly successful Melges 20 (April 7-9).
WOW air, Iceland’s only low cost airline, has announced that it will add seven new Airbus aircraft to its rapidly growing fleet by the end of 2018, bringing the total count to 24.
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Leonardo has just started a demo tour with its AW119Kx single engine helicopter together with Simone Moro, the only alpinist in history to have reached four 8,000 meters peaks in winter. Initial flying activities have been accomplished between March 24th and 28th and the tour is expected to be completed by mid-April.
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Readiness for the arrival of the UK’s first F-35 Lightning II jets took another step forward with the awarding of a contract by the US Department of Defense F-35 Lightning II Joint Program Office worth more than £80m (US$102.2m) to Lockheed Martin to deliver the initial training, engineering, maintenance and logistics support for the UK’s F-35 Lightning II fleet over a three year period.
