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...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2016 | ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA
Major Tim Peake has become the first British astronaut to go out into space on a spacewalk as he stepped out of the air lock along with US NASA astronaut, Tim Kopra, who was on his third spacewalk. The EVA (Extra Vehicular Activity), which began at 1255 GMT (hatch...
by David Todd | Jan 15, 2016 | ESA, exploration, Science
The little German-designed Philae minilab lander, which stole the headlines in November 2014 when it made a bouncing landing onto the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, is thought to have died of “hypothermia”. The lander, which originally cadged a lift to...
