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...
The SENTINEL-2B Earth-observation spacecraft was carried to low-Earth Orbit (LEO) by a Vega light launcher at 0149GMT on 7 March. The mission was conducted by Arianespace, under a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), in service to the European...
It has been reported that some atomic clocks on the interim and full production satellites in the Galileo navigation satellite constellation have faults. According to spaceintelreport.com, 10 clocks of two different types (hydrogen maser and rubidium types) had been...
