by David Todd | Aug 12, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station, Seradata News, space station
After testing out some rendezvous instruments including a laser ranging/guidance system, the unmanned cargo spacecraft ATV 05 docked with International Space Station (ISS) at its Zvezda module at 1330 GMT on 12 August 2014. The spacecraft was the last of ESA’s...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2014 | ESA, exploration, Science
After a 6.4 billion km passage lasting 10 years and involving velocity accelerating flybys of Earth and Mars, at 0800 GMT on 6 August 2014, European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission rendezvoused with Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. The Rosetta spacecraft will...
by David Todd | Jul 31, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, International Space Station, Satellites
At 2347GMT on 29 July 2014, the European Space Agency’s (ESA’s) final Automated Transfer Vehicle, ATV 05 (Georges Lemaitre) was launched into orbit on top of an Arianespace-operated Ariane 5ES launch vehicle. The lift off of flight VA219 took place from...
by David Todd | Jul 25, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, JAXA, NASA, Technology
Sierra Nevada Corp has signed memorandum of cooperative understanding with the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) work on potential applications of Japanese technologies and the development of mission concepts for the Dream Chaser spacecraft. Additionally,...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, ESA
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a launch contract with Arianespace for the launch Sentinel-1B, part of the joint ESA/EU Copernicus environmental monitoring programme. The launch is scheduled on a Soyuz rocket in 2016 from the Guiana Space Center,...
by David Todd | Jul 14, 2014 | ESA, History, Science, Technology
In a dramatic reshuffle of UK Prime Minister David Cameron’s cabinet, the Rt Hon David Willetts MP, Minister of Universities and Science, and who had space as part of his brief, has resigned just hours before being due to make a presentation on Britain’s...
