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ESA and the European Defence Agency (EDA) are furthering their combined efforts in the study of satellite services for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) through the signing of contracts with two consortia to carry out parallel feasibility studies. 
The service module of the new Alphabus generation of telecommunication satellites has completed its first journey ? from Cannes to Toulouse, in France. The three-day trip was completed last Friday. 
More than 100 participants from ESA?s Member States and Canada attended an ARTES 1 workshop on ?Status and Evolution of the Satcom Market?, which took place on 20?21 January at Space Expo, located at ESA?s ESTEC facility in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. 
The DVB (Digital Video Broadcast) Project has initiated a major revision of the DVB - Return Channel Satellite (DVB-RCS) standard. 
The pilot operational phase of SatElections, an innovative project for the production and delivery of eLearning modules on Effective Electoral Assistance and Electoral Administration via satellite, was launched on 18 November 2008 in Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. 
ESA PR 45-2008. Today, ESA has signed the Small GEO Platform and Small GEO Mission contracts with the respective industrial primes, namely: OHB- System AG (Germany) and Hispasat S.A. (Spain). 