by David Todd | Oct 25, 2013 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The experimental communications satellite Artemis is to spend its final years operating in orbit with a different owner. The European Space Agency ESA has agreed to sell the Artemis satellite to the London based Avanti Communications firm for a nominal sum so that...
by David Todd | Oct 8, 2013 | China, ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station, JAXA, NASA, Russia, Science, SLS, Technology
The International Astronautical Congress (IAC) is held every year in a different world city. As China has become the “third force” in manned spaceflight, it was logical and correct that Beijing, China’s capital city, should be selected as the venue...
by David Todd | Sep 13, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, NASA, Russia, Seradata News, Soyuz, space station
The Soyuz TMA-08M spacecraft successfully returned to Earth at 0258 GMT on 11 September 2013 with its three crew of US astronaut Chris Cassidy and Russian cosmonauts Pavel Vinogfradov and Alexander Misurkin. After atmospheric re-entry capsule landed after being...
by David Todd | Aug 7, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
While the French and Germans continue to bicker over the final configuration of Ariane 6 even though it has been officially set, the European Space Agency is now looking beyond that rocket. Under a €1 million study the UK-based air-breathing rocket design firm,...
by David Todd | Jul 18, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites
The biennial UK Space Conference was held this year at the Scottish Exhibition and Conference Centre on the banks of the Clyde in Glasgow in July. During the conference, which was organised by the UK Space Agency, there was an emphasis on how innovation and enterprise...
by Dan Thisdell | Jul 11, 2013 | ESA, Seradata News
This image released today by the European Space Agency shows adeployment test of the solar wings on the latest Galileo navigation satellitebeing carried out ESA’s technical hub in the Netherlands. The 1 x 5 m solarwings carry more than 2,500 state-of-the-art...
