by David Todd | Feb 10, 2014 | ESA, History
Enrico Sagesse, the head of the Italian Space Agency ASI (Agence Spatiale Italienne) and a driving force in decision making at the European Space Agency (ESA), has tendered his resignation. Sagesse states that he is resigning in order to defend his reputation over...
by David Todd | Feb 5, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The European Space Agency (ESA) has converted a previously contracted back-up launch on a Rockot to a firm agreement with Eurockot Launch Services GmbH for placing into orbit an additional spacecraft from the Copernicus Sentinel range of satellites. Sentinel-5p will...
by David Todd | Jan 17, 2014 | ESA, Satellites, Science
Having made a burn on 20 December 2013, the day after it was launched, and a supplementary rocket engine burn on 7 January 2013, ESA’s Gaia astronomy mission finally entered a halo orbit around the L2 Lagrangian point after making a final engine burn on 14...
by David Todd | Jan 9, 2014 | commercial launch services, ESA, International Space Station, Personal spaceflight, Space Shuttle, space station
While the International Space Station was originally set to retire in 2015, a retirement which was then deferred to 2020, NASA has just got permission from the Obama Administration to agree with its other national/pan-national users including Roscosmos, ESA, JAXA and...
by David Todd | Dec 20, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Science
The European Space Agency’s GAIA ( Global Astrometric Interferometer for Astrophysics) mission was successsfully launched from Sinnamary launch site, near Kourou, French Guiana, at 0912 GMT on 19 December by a Soyuz ST-B (Fregat MT). GAIA is to study the...
by David Todd | Dec 3, 2013 | ESA, NASA, Science
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfSI60iuUEk[/youtube] The Comet Ison failed to live up to its billing as the so-called “Comet of the Century” as it passed close to the Sun in late November. Images from the ESA/NASA SOHO spacecraft’s Lasco...
