by David Todd | Nov 22, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Science
A Russian Rockot launch vehicle launched the three Swarm satellites at 1202 GMT on Friday 22 November from the Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Northern Russia. The three identical Swarm satellites which will be used to explore the Earth’s magnetic field. All three satellites...
by David Todd | Nov 15, 2013 | ESA, History, Satellites, Science, Space tourism, Technology
While the UK Space Agency basks in the plaudits and adulation received recently both from the UK Parliamentary Science and Technology Committee and from other independent commentators, it hopes to maintain the momentum as it publishes its latest plan for future...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
The European GOCE (Gravity field and steady-state Ocean Circulation Experiment) Earth-gravity measurement spacecraft has now re-entered at around 0001 GMT on 11 November 2013. It is thought that most of the spacecraft burned up safely after its uncommanded re-entry. ...
by David Todd | Nov 11, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The manned Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft carrying Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin, Italian ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and US NASA astronaut, Karen Nyberg and an Olympic torch safely back to Earth, touching down using parachutes and braking rockets at 0249 GMT on 11...
by David Todd | Nov 4, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, space station
Having fulfullled its cargo mission to International Space Station (ISS), the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ATV-04 (Albert Einstein) spacecraft was deliberately re-entered on 2 November at circa 1204 GMT with any remaining debris falling into the Pacific. Some...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, Seradata News, space station
The European Space Agency’s cargo spacecraft ATV-04 (Albert Einstein) undocked from the aft port of the International Space Station’s Zvezda module at 0855 GMT and separated from the station. The cargo craft will soon be deliberately re-entered with...
