by David Todd | May 20, 2013 | ESA
In all the enthusiasm about Tim Peake’s planned spaceflight to the International Space Station in November 2015 (which might be thought of as a de facto “thank you” for the UK’s extra funding to ESA), and how it might promote the so called STEM...
by David Todd | Mar 14, 2013 | ESA, exploration, Russia, Science, Technology
After NASA found it could no longer offer launches for the ExoMars mission, the European Space Agency (ESA) approached Russia for help. As a result of long running discussions, on 14 March the ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain and Head of Roscosmos...
by David Todd | Jan 25, 2013 | commercial launch services, ESA, Russia, Science, Seradata News
After Flightglobal’s Hyperbola revelation that the Breeze M (Briz M) upper stage had not peformed a planned post-satellite delivery final orbit-lowering/propellant depletion manoeuvre during the latest Rockot launch, Eurorockot, the firm that markets...
by David Todd | Jan 22, 2013 | ESA, History
As Canada loses its space agency head, the UK Space Agency gets a new one.Dr. David Parker has been appointed as the next Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency. He has been acting Chief Executive of the agency since December 2012, and will take up the role with...
by David Todd | Jan 17, 2013 | ESA
Now that the European Space Agency (ESA) is charged with building the new service module for NASA’s Orion manned spacecraft, its solar arrays are now expected to use the X-configuration that the ATV vessel uses (ESA’s ATV is being used as the basis of the...
by Dan Thisdell | Jan 10, 2013 | ESA, International Space Station, Space Shuttle, space station, Technology
Just to give an idea of lead times in spaceflight: Arianespace has begun loading cargo into the European Space Agency’s fourth Automated Transfer Vehicle robotic supply ship, named Albert Einstein – which launches via Ariane 5 rocket for the International...
