by David Todd | May 8, 2015 | exploration, Satellites, Science
The Arab world will soon have its eyes on Mars, or so the recently formed space agency of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) hopes. It has announced plans to launch a mission, titled the Emirates Mars Mission, in July 2020 to arrive at the red planet the following year,...
by David Todd | May 1, 2015 | Satellites, Science
The French Space Agency CNES awarded the formal construction contract to Airbus Defence and Space on 27 April 2014 for the MERLIN (MEthane Remote sensing LIdar missioN) spacecraft to monitor Methane emissions on the planet Earth. The contract is was worth €30...
by David Todd | May 1, 2015 | exploration, NASA, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
NASA’s MESSENGER (MErcury Surface Space ENvironment GEochemistry Ranging) mission has come to a crunching end with the crash landing of the craft onto the planet Mercury at around 2000 GMT on 30 April 2015. The mission, which was built by the Johns Hopkins...
by David Todd | Apr 23, 2015 | Satellites, Science, Seradata News, Technology
Space News (Peter De Selding) reports that two 3U-cubesat spacecraft of 4kg each have been ordered from Clyde Space as precursors to a full constellation of Sustained Ocean Observation for Nanosatellites (SOCON) consellation which will carry sensors built by the...
by David Todd | Apr 17, 2015 | Satellites, Science
The government and military services arm of the Luxembourg-based world satellite operator SES, SES Government Solutions, has signed a deal with the US Department of Defence to supply 288MHz of military communications capacity to the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM)...
by David Todd | Apr 10, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Satellites, Science, Seradata News
During a 14km flyby of the nucleus of Comet 67P/Churyumov Gerasimenko on 28 March 2015, the valiant ROSETTA spacecraft of the European Space Agency had a major pointing error. As the comet gets closer to the Sun, it is outgassing water vapour and dust, and this was...
