by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The much-vaunted European Galileo navigation satellite constellation financed by the European Union (EU) and devised by the European Space Agency (ESA), is supposed to offer equivalent reliability and accuracy to the US GPS system. Therefore, there was more than a...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | ESA, Russia, Science, Seradata News
The Spektr-Rontgen-Gamma X-ray astronomy observatory, better known as Spektr-RG was launched at 1230 GMT on 13 July 2019 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakstan. The first burn of the Block DM-03 upper stage placed itself and Spektr-RG into an initial...
by David Todd | May 28, 2019 | ESA, History, Seradata News
Having finally lost the support of her own MPs, and the Conservative Party in general, as she tried to get her rejected “Brexit” deal with the EU though parliament for a fourth time, Theresa May has finally formally given in her notice to quit. She will no...
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 the spacecraft’s main wind measurement instrument, using Lidar, has a faulty laser. The laser is now degrading at a rate of 1...
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...
