The Hubble Space Telescope fell into a safe mode after one of its remaining three fully operational gyros malfunctioned on 5 October 2018 preventing observations using the venerable astronomical spacecraft. The gyro concerned had been reportedly degrading for a year. ...
The small satellite manufacturing subsidiary of Airbus Defence and Space, Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL), celebrated the successful launch of two satellites, NovaSAR-1, a Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite able to image the earth at night or through...
According to Space News, with the backing of the French space agency CNES, the maritime tracking firm CLS, has set up a new company Kineiss, to create a 20-satellite “Internet of Things” IOT communications constellation of 25kg 16U Cubesats to maintain...
NASA has announced that its Kepler planet-finding spacecraft is back in operation. After the Kepler team received warning of a low fuel state, to ensure that the spacecraft enough for a reorientation for a data download (the antenna has to be reorientated...
Ahhh…the irony. The Vega launch of the Lidar-equipped ESA satellite Aeolus (aka ADM-Aeolus), which was designed and built to measure the dynamics of strong winds, was delayed by 24 hours…err, due to strong winds. Our thanks to Seradata’s Phil Hylands for pointing...
While the old politically incorrect joke about a stupid country (insert a preferred nation) attempting a space mission to land on the Sun (they were going to go at night) might be intentionally ridiculous, NASA is attempting to do something close. After a one-day...
