by Rob Coppinger | Jul 17, 2009 | ESA, Technology
The European Space Agency has just this minute released this information with an invite to media to attend the Thales Alenia Space Italy contract signing event – it is on MondaySet for launch in 2010, the data collected by the European Experimental...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 7, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, International Space Station
At the Paris air show Hyperbola got to interview three of the European Space Agency’s new astronauts, Tim Peake, Andy Mogensen and Samantha Cristoforetti. Go here to listen to the astronaut podcast Peake is the UK’s first ESA astronaut, Mogensen is the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jul 6, 2009 | China, ESA, exploration, International Space Station
During a short conversation with European Space Agency director general Jean-Jacques Dordain this morning here in Paris, at the 3rd European Conference for Aerospace Sciences, Hyperbola asked him about India, South Korea and China During the first public meeting of...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Soyuz, Technology
Go here to find out more about how you can follow all the tweet action from the Flightglobal team working this week at the Le Bourget Paris Salon de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (that’s aeronautics and space to the anglais only readers out there) as...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 13, 2009 | ESA, exploration, History, Russia, Satellites, Soyuz
It is a bright and sunny Saturday (13 June) morning here in le Bourget, France where preparations continue for the 100th Paris air show that will see a whole of lot of aeronautics stuff and plenty of European spaceflight industry and agency activity to fill the...
by Rob Coppinger | Jun 9, 2009 | ESA, exploration, Technology
A lunar landing technology demonstrator could be flown in 2012 if a €1 million ($1.39 million) German Aerospace Center (DLR) feasibility study awarded to EADS Astrium is successful The €1 million study starts this month and lasts for nine months, ending with a...
