As part of the on-going connectivity evaluations of the ORCA payload, under the ESA co-funded project DOCS, SkyfloX' subcontractor TNO performed various connectivity tests at Rotterdam The Hague Airport (RTM), in collaboration with T-Mobile and Tele-2. We are very thankful for the extensive support received by the airport authorities, allowing us to access the various restricted areas. [...]

EBAN, or European Trade Association for Business Angels, Seed Funds and Early Stage Market Players, organised their annual winter summit at the Nymphenburg Palace in Munich, and invited SkyfloX to be part of the space technology panel, with a Keynote by Frank Salzgeber (Head of the ESA Technology Transfer Program Office), moderated by Rainer [...]

The European Space Agency acknowledges the immense potential of aerial & stratospheric platforms as a complementary sources of Earth observation data or telecommunication services. ESA's support to the development of such platforms (including ORCA), and associated miniaturisation of sensor and communication technologies, is illustrated by the efforts made in organising the workshop HAPS4ESA, on the [...]

In the frame of ESA Integrated Applications Programme, SkyfloX runs the co-funded project DOCS: Demonstration of ORCA Constellation Services. A first major milestone confirming ORCA’s exceptional capabilities was achieved early October at the critical design review at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, Netherlands. SkyfloX and partners achieved this milestone in merely five months from [...]

Space Moves! is an event jointly organised by the Space Administration of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR) and the European Space Agency (ESA) to promote space-enabled services with a major focus on transport and mobility. SkyfloX was invited to present the ORCA concept during the aviation thematic session. < Timeline

About DOCS SkyfloX, together with a team of six international partners, including a major airliner, started the ESA ARTES activity DOCS (Demonstration of ORCA Constellation Services). The activity's main objective is to assess the issues of placing ORCA payloads on commercial airliners from technical, business, and legal points of view. The first services [...]