Every year Seradata publishes its analysis of how well different nations are doing in the “great space race”. In this, we limit our analysis to manned spaceflight and to its two main exploratory targets: a return to the Moon and setting foot on Mars. On the basis of...
On 11 August, Virgin Orbit signed a contract for the provision of one of their air-launched, small-satellite launch vehicles, LauncherOne, to Italian aerospace manufacturer SITAEL S.p.A. The mission will be for SITAEL’s technology demonstration...
The Soyuz MS-05 mission to the ISS lifted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, at 1541 GMT on 28 July. The crew capsule was launched by a Russian Soyuz FG vehicle. Inside the capsule were cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy, ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli and NASA...
Orbital Access Limited (OAL), a UK based launch systems and aerospace services business, has been awarded a GBP£200,000 contract by the European Space Agency (ESA) to design its air-launched Orbital 500R satellite launcher as part of the Agency’s two-stage-to-orbit...
At the Paris Air Show, the European Space Agency, on behalf of itself and its European Union partner, which provides most of the funding, formally signed a construction order for eight more Galileo satellites from the constructor team led by OHB System AG, which...
Expedition 50 Commander Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Flight Engineer Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) conducted a spacewalk outside the International Space Station on March 24. The main job was to disconnect cables and electrical connections on...
