CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met with officials from the United Arab Emirates Space Agency (UAESA) and the Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) to discuss ongoing and future space cooperation projects.
Airbus Defense and Space Inc. has been awarded a contract from the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop a satellite bus in support of the Blackjack programme.
Thales Alenia Space has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to lead the Fluorescence Explorer (FLEX) mission, scheduled for launch in 2023.
Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a new tranche of the framework contract originally signed on 18th October with the European Space Agency (ESA), on behalf of the European Commission and the European GNSS Agency (GSA), to develop and deploy...
For its 11th and final launch of the year – and the third with the Soyuz medium launcher — Arianespace sent the CSO-1 Earth observation satellite, intended for defence and security applications, into Sun-synchronous orbit on 19th December for the French CNES (Centre National d’Etudes...
ArianeGroup has been awarded the contract to supply a chemical propulsion system to place Germany’s Heinrich Hertz experimental telecommunications satellite (H2Sat) into geostationary orbit and to provide attitude control during its 15-year service life. ArianeGroup will supply a bi-propellant...
Following the successful launch of the Franco-Chinese CFOSat mission on 29th October, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall has set out a series of goals for future joint space programmes between France and China. Le Gall was speaking at a preparatory meeting of the French-Chinese joint science and...
Arianespace’s tenth mission of 2018, successfully completed on 4th December, placed satellite payloads for the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) into geostationary transfer orbit, using an Ariane 5.
Designated Flight VA246, it delivered...