by David Todd | Nov 18, 2015 | ESA, Satellites, Technology
In its effort to improve the commercial prospects of Europe’s satellite bus/platform designs in the commercial communications arena, the European Space Agency agreed at a €107 million funding tranche via a Neosat contract with Airbus Defence and Space to develop...
by David Todd | Nov 16, 2015 | ESA, Launches, Technology
The “lucky little rocket” Vega continues to survive and even prosper in spite of its great expense. At the Reinventing Space (RISPACE) conference, held in Oxford in November, Markus Bertschi, Head of Exploitation and Launch Ranges at ESA’s Directorate of Launchers,...
by David Todd | Nov 6, 2015 | Launches, Military space, Technology
The maiden flight of the rail-launched three stage solid rocket Spark 1 (Super Strypi) small launch vehicle ended in failure less than a minute after lift-off from the Barking Sands launch site in Hawaii at 0345 GMT on 4 November 2015. Details of the failure have not...
by David Todd | Nov 3, 2015 | commercial launch services, ESA, Seradata News, Technology
The transatlantic aerospace, shipbuilding and defence conglomerate, BAE Systems, has agreed to purchase a 20% shareholding in Reaction Engines Limited for £20.6 million. Following on from work on the HOTOL launch vehicle at British Aerospace and the RB545...
by David Todd | Oct 30, 2015 | Technology
At the well attended 4th UK Space Propulsion Workshop held under the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN) at the Imperial War Museum in London in October, the subject of whether the UK should have a small launch vehicle and a UK spaceport, came up. It was accepted by the...
by David Todd | Oct 28, 2015 | Satellites, Technology
Inmarsat has signed a contract to provide high-speed inflight connectivity services for passengers onboard Lufthansa’s European continental fleet. Under the agreement, Inmarsat will equip more than 150 Lufthansa airlines aircraft with Global Xpress (GX), with...
