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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
