by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station
Astronauts Reid Wiseman of NASA and Alexander Gerst of ESA carried out an Extra Vehicular Activity (EVA) spacewalk commencing at 1230 GMT from the Quest airlock on 7 October 2014. The EVA finished 6 hours 13 minutes later at 1843 GMT. During the spacewalk the...
by David Todd | Oct 16, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites
The cause of the failure which stranded two ESA/EU Galileo navigation satellites in a faulty Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) launch from Sinnamary, near Kourou, French Guiana, on 22 August 2014 has been found. The satellites were left in a wrong orbit after a frozen hydrazine...
by David Todd | Sep 22, 2014 | ESA, exploration, NASA
At 0138 GMT on 22 September 2014, NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft fired six of its spacecraft thrusters to successfully slow itself into an orbit around the planet Mars. The orbit achieved was a 44,600 x 380 km orbit at 75...
by David Todd | Aug 23, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Soyuz
The Arianespace-operated flight of a Russian-built Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT) launch vehicle ended in embarrassing failure on 22 August 2014 after the launch vehicle deposited two EU/ESA Galileo navigation satellites into the wrong orbit. The lift off at 1227 GMT from...
by David Todd | Aug 21, 2014 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
In a report by Space News, it has been revealed that the European Space Agency (ESA) has cut signal power by 1.5dB from the four initial Galileo navigation system satellites launched to date. The move was done as a precautionary measure after three of the satellites...
by David Todd | Aug 15, 2014 | ESA, exploration, JAXA, NASA, Russia
After its Space Launch System (SLS) design passed its technical and budget reviews, NASA has now formally committed itself to building this giant rocket. And it may be just in time now that a “Cold War” has apparently been “refrozen” and a new “Space Race”...
