by David Todd | May 21, 2019 | commercial launch services, ESA, Launches, Satellites, Seradata News
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial...
by David Todd | May 14, 2019 | ESA, Satellites
The European Space Agency’s AEOLUS – Earth Explorer Atmospheric Dynamics Mission for wind profile monitoring is in trouble as its main wind measurement instrument using Lidar has a fault with its laser. The laser is now degrading at a rate of 1 milli-joule...
by David Todd | Apr 24, 2019 | commercial launch services, ESA, Launches, Satellites
The European Space Agency has formally ordered seven Ariane 6 flights to take place between 2021 and 2023. The order has allowed ArianeGroup, the conglomerate building the Ariane 6, to start production of the first batch of 14 launch vehicles. It has not been...
by David Todd | Jan 14, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The construction of the FLEX – the Fluorescence Explorer spacecraft which is to study “vegetation fluorescence” to determine global photosynthetic activity – has been officially ordered. Having been originally selected in Novemer 2015 as the...
by David Todd | Nov 22, 2018 | ESA, Seradata News
Europe’s space programme had its share of political ups and downs in November. The most surprising news was the unexpected firing of Roberto Battiston as head of the Italian Space Agency by the Italian government. He had been in post for four years. Save for a very...
by David Todd | Nov 8, 2018 | ESA, Seradata News, Soyuz
In the third successful launch since the Soyuz FG non-fatal launch failure of the Soyuz MS-10 crewed launch, a Soyuz ST-B with an Fregat M successfully lifted off from the Sinnamary launch site near Kourou in French Guiana. Launch time was at 0047 GMT on 7 November....
