by David Todd | Mar 18, 2016 | ESA, History, Science
While the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, the Rt Hon George Osborne MP gained not-so-friendly headlines by cutting benefits for the disabled while reducing capital gains tax for the rich in his budget, which in turn, caused a Ministerial resignation and his subsequent...
by David Todd | Mar 15, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The joint ESA/Roscosmos ExoMars mission to examine the amount and source of methane on Mars has been successfully delivered onto its interplanetary trajectory by a Proton M/Breeze M launch. The launch took place at 0931 GMT on 14 February and carried the main ExoMars...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2016 | Commercial human spaceflight, ESA, Seradata News
While the European Space Agency is in favour, and the French and German Space industries are in favour, the plan to merge Arianespace into Airbus-Safran launchers has been halted. The European Commission, which is the executive and enforcement arm of the European...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2016 | ESA, NASA
Boris Johnson, MP, Mayor of London, and de facto leader of the “Brexit” referendum campaign to make the United Kingdom leave the European Union (EU), has stated that while he wants the UK to leave the EU, he also wants the UK to remain within the European...
by David Todd | Feb 17, 2016 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Science
While it may only have a few flights left in its career, Rockot is still working well. A Rockot/Breeze KM successfully launched the 1150kg Sentinel-3A spacecraft on behalf of the European Space Agency at 1757 GMT on 16 February 2015 from the Plesetsk launch site in...
by David Todd | Jan 26, 2016 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
Having been launched by a Vega rocket on 3 December 2015 to an initial 1540km apogee orbit, the science spacecraft LISA Pathfinder was raised via a series of six burns using a propulsion module/transfer stage to boost the orbit in steps in order to finally approach...
