on 12/10/2018 at 09h35
Preparations are moving ahead for Arianespace’s next Ariane 5 launch, which will send the BepiColombo spacecraft on its way to the solar system’s smallest and least-explored terrestrial planet: Mercury. Scheduled for a 19th October lift-off from the Spaceport in French Guiana, BepiColombo is a...
on 10/10/2018 at 10h20
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France's CNES space agency, travelled to Abu Dhabi for the opening of CNES’s new office at the French Embassy on 7th October and the arrival of Donato Giorgi, CNES representative and Space Advisor in the United Arab Emirates. The event was attended by Ludovic...
on 09/10/2018 at 16h45
The construction of the European Space Agency's Plato mission to find and study planets beyond the Solar System will be led by Germany’s OHB System AG as prime contractor, marking the start of the full industrial phase of the project. The €288m contract was signed on 4th October at the 69th...
on 02/10/2018 at 15h28
Thales Alenia Space in the UK has delivered flight-approved Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) to Airbus Defence and Space for integration with the ExoMars Rover. The ExoMars 2020 mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 and arrive at Mars nine months later. Exomars is an international cooperative...
on 26/09/2018 at 14h13
Arianespace has successfully launched two communications satellites: Horizons 3e for Intelsat and SKY Perfect JSAT Corporation, and Azerspace-2/Intelsat 38 for Azercosmos and Intelsat. The launch took place on Tuesday, 25thSeptember at 19:38 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center (CSG),...
on 21/09/2018 at 10h15
Arianespace has been selected by the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI) to launch KOMPSAT-7. Stephane Israël, Arianespace CEO, and Lim Cheol-Ho, President of KARI, signed the KOMPSAT-7 launch contract on 20th September. Using a Vega C launcher, the mission will be conducted from the Guiana...
on 19/09/2018 at 15h27
Thales Alenia Space, the joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide operations, maintenance and upgrade services for the Payload Data Ground Segment (PDGS) supporting the Sentinel 2A and 2B Earth observation...
on 17/09/2018 at 14h41
Europe's Copernicus Sentinel-1 radar mission is being used to map damage and flooding in the aftermath of Hurricane Florence, which made landfall in the U.S. state of North Caroline on 14th September. Although the hurricane was downgraded to category 1 before it made landfall, it generated...
on 17/09/2018 at 11h58
Over 23,000 commercial aircraft will offer in-flight entertainment and connectivity (IFEC) to their passengers by 2027 (up from 7,400 aircraft in 2017), according to a new report from Euroconsult. The report covers prospects for commercial airlines and business aviation. The report indicates that...
on 13/09/2018 at 12h19
Airbus Defence and Space has entered into a partnership with Orbital Insight, a U.S.-based geospatial analytics company, to build a suite of geospatial analytics services and tools. The agreement will provide Orbital Insight with access to Pleiades and SPOT satellite imagery at scale and provide...
on 11/09/2018 at 12h18
Hispasat, the Spanish satellite communications operator, and Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the joint venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %), are preparing a stratospheric balloon demonstration for 4G/5G telecom applications. Scheduled for October 2018 in southern Spain, the demonstration...
on 10/09/2018 at 17h38
Arianespace has announced two new contracts for Ariane 6 at World Satellite Business Week 2018, being held in Paris from 10th-14th September. The first contract is with Eutelsat as part of a launch services agreement involving five satellites; and the second with France’s CNES space agency and...
on 07/09/2018 at 12h40
A technology demonstrator for a new Life Support Rack for the International Space Station (ISS) is scheduled to launch from Tanegashima, Japan on 11th September. The rack, also known as Advanced Closed Loop System (ACLS), has been developed by Airbus for the European Space Agency (ESA). The system...
on 06/09/2018 at 11h21
Jean-Yves Le Gall, president of France's CNES space agency, and ISRO Chairman K. Sivan have announced the creation of a French-Indian working group on human spaceflight, thus following up on commitments made by President Emmanuel Macron after his State visit to India earlier this year. CNES and...
on 05/09/2018 at 15h49
GKN Aerospace has been contracted by ArianeGroup to develop and manufacture two full-scale turbines for the Prometheus low-cost re-usable rocket engine demonstrator. These will be the first additively manufactured (AM) rocket engine turbines in Europe. The first turbine is scheduled to be delivered...
