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Arianespace launched at the end of 2020 French second military satellite CSO. His capabilities are classified.
China continues to accumulate space successes, with the commissioning this morning of a new medium-power, potentially reusable launcher.
Following the Space19+ ministerial conference, ESA has entrusted ArianeGroup with the launch of the first phase of development of the European first-stage demonstrator for the Themis reusable launch vehicle.
A look back at the first UAE reconnaissance satellite, the last of which was launched on Arianespace's VS24 mission.
Arianespace has successfully launched Emirates observation satellite FalconEye, using a Soyuz launcher launched from Guiana Space Center
Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA signed an agreement with European Space Agency for the first removal of space debris from Low Earth orbit in the world.
The future European mission dedicated to exoplanets has moved from the study phase to the implementation phase. The offers from industrialists for the construction of the satellite are now awaited.
Chinese lunar exploration mission departed on November 23th, and its main job is no snag about 2kg of lunar material, 44 years after soviet mission Luna 24. Chang’E 5 will come back mid-december
Perfect Saturday night launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California. On board is a powerful oceanographic altimetry satellite from the European Earth observation program Copernicus.
The European light launcher, launched from French Guiana during the night of 16 to 16 November, suffered damage to its fourth stage, which was fatal to the mission.
Speculations on the rise about who will replace Jim Brindestine as NASA administrator.
A cubesat equipped with an innovative electric thruster, developed by Paris Region startup ThrustMe, is paving the way for economical and sustainable constellations.
China is adding a new competitor in the commercial market for small satellite launches.
Every weekend, a picture that made the news or caught our attention. On November 7, India placed ten satellites into low orbit using its small PSLV launcher operated from the Sriharikota base.
In the inglorious campaign that has just ended on the other side of the Atlantic, the two candidates for the presidential election did not distinguish themselves much in terms of their ambitions in terms of space.
The future European heavy launcher will not take off before the second quarter of 2022. The delay is blamed on the health crisis, which is expected to cost member states an additional 230 million euros.
The American-New Zealand operator Rocket Lab deployed ten new small Earth imaging satellites last night, making it one of the most active American operators of the year.
Space Europe was thought to be obsessed with Mars and timid about the conquest of the Moon. Each week that passes brings its share of technological innovations for lunar exploration. Fortunately, from elsewhere.
Every weekend, we publish an image that made the news or caught our attention. On October 15, the Euro-Japanese probe on its way to Mercury performed a gravitational assistance manoeuvre in the vicinity of Venus.
Nasa's Osiris-Rex spaceprobe, launched four years ago, visibly succeeded in the night of October 20-21 in collecting the first American sample on an asteroid.
With a thirtieth launch attempt this year, China is since yesterday in the first place of the world space leaders.
Thales Alenia Space chose EDF Group subsidiary EDF ENR to install its French-made solar carports at the Toulouse site.
Spain’s SEOSAT-Ingenio (at left) is readied for the startup of its checkout process in the Spaceport’s S5 payload preparation facility, which will begin after the external wrapping is removed. In parallel, the French Taranis scientific satellite (at right) undergoes an initial inspection in another of the S5 clean room areas.
Europe is preparing alongside the Americans to protect themselves from near-Earth asteroids that would threaten the Earth.
CRISTAL will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet elevations. Airbus in Germany will lead the industrial consortium. Contract is worth € 300 million.
The Japanese Space Agency in turn announces delays in the development of its future heavy launcher.
HERA aims to find out if we are capable of deflecting an asteroid and prevent it from hitting Earth.
ENGIE and ArianeGroup have just announced the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of renewable liquid hydrogen to speed up the decarbonisation of heavy-duty and longdistance transportation.
Bartolomeo is now on its journey to the International Space Station (ISS)
On February 25, Northrop Grumman's MEV-1 tug achieved a historic milestone, docking the old Intelsat 901 satellite beyond the geostationary orbit.
France decides to join the Allied Combined Space Operations initiative. The objective of this initiative is to coordinate the efforts of the seven participating nations in the area of space defense.
The Trump administration’s new budget proposal, presented nine months before the next U.S. presidential election, further bolsters — both civilian and military — space activities.
The deployment of the British megaconstellation, whose mission is to provide global Internet, will accelerate after this first grouped launch of 34 satellites.
BAE Systems intends to buy Collins Aerospace’s military Global Positioning System business for $1.9 billion and Raytheon’s Airborne Tactical Radios division for $275 million, to be sold for antitrust clearances.
The European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services concluded the 12th Conference on European Space Policy. A much awaited speech.
The European Commission and the European Investment Bank Group provide €200 million for the Ariane 6 program and SMEs in the space sector.
The annual conference on European space policy started this morning in the capital of the European Union, at the time of Brexit, a new Commission and the negotiation of the next Community budget.
A full-scale testing of the first stage of the mega-launcher will be the last big step before the first flight to the moon.
On December 30, Maxar announced the sale its Canadian commercial unit MDA to Northern Private Capital, a private investment company based in Toronto.
The long-awaited ministerial meeting of the European Space Agency, which took place on November 27 and 28, ended with a historic budget agreement.
The last Ariane 5 mission of the year took place on November 26. The Ariane program reaches the milestone of 250 attempts to launch in almost 40 years.
On October 10, the valiant Russian launcher signed its 18th success in a row... but only its first commercial mission of the past two years.
A decisive phase has been achieved by the future European heavy launcher, planned for the second half of 2020: the Critical Design Review.
The inquiry commission mandated after the accident of the light launcher of Arianespace occurred on July 11 presented its conclusions. The flight resumption of Vega is expected for the first quarter of 2020.
An explosion occurred during the preparation of the orbital launch of the Iranian Space Agency. U.S. satellites sighted a column of smoke.
Terratekh offers a high resolution RGB and infrared commercial imagery service on its Cloud.
Arsenal, the military entity of the conglomerate Roscosmos, introduced an unprecedented space tug on its pavilion at the MAKS 2019 Air Show.
The successful test of the demonstrator of SpaceX’s future giant launcher looks like a déjà vu…
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