by David Todd | Apr 30, 2014 | Add category, commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites
On its successful third flight, Vega, the European Space Agency’s small launch vehicle which is operated by Arianespace, successfully launched the KazEOsat-1 (DZZ-HR) spacecraft for the Government of Kazakhstan into a Sun-synchronous near polar low Earth orbit. ...
by David Todd | Apr 7, 2014 | Add category, ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
Space News reports that Airbus Defence and Space has beaten its European spacecraft constructor rival Thales Alenia Space to win the contract to build the first part of the Metop Second Generation (Metop SG) spacecraft series. ESA will pay €800 million as its share...
by David Todd | Mar 20, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The compromise “Eurofudge” decision, in late 2012, by the European Space Agency (ESA) both to pursue the ME upgrade to the Ariane 5 launch vehicle and to develop its solid/liquid based Ariane 6 successor looks likely to unravel. At a meeting between...
by David Todd | Mar 7, 2014 | ESA, History, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, space station
Russia’s military and political advances in the Crimean region of Ukraine, following similar fanning of separatism in parts of Georgia in 2008, has re-awakened Cold War fears. A cycle of sanctions against Russia and its retaliation to such action could seriously...
by David Todd | Feb 28, 2014 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Seradata News, space station
The cause of the water leak fault that endangered the life of Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano while on a spacewalk outside of the International Space Station (ISS) has been discovered. NASA has revealed that after a long investigation that coolant contamination was...
by David Todd | Feb 26, 2014 | ESA, Satellites
As part of its ARTES 14 programme to build a next generation platform for communications spacecraft, the European Space Agency has awarded the phase B contract totalling €18.2 million to Airbus Defence and Space and Thales Alenia Space for the design of its new Neosat...
