by David Todd | Jul 17, 2015 | ESA, International Space Station, Science, Technology
It is a sign that the UK space industry remains in very good health that the third UK Space Conference had attendance up for the third time, this time to 1,100 delegates. As a further indication of the UK’s growing importance in space, the enlarged Conference...
by David Todd | Jul 9, 2015 | ESA, Satellites, Technology
In a public private partnership (PPP) contract, Airbus Defence and Space has received an initial €180 million (US$198 million) contract to develop the first flexible Quantum satellite with Eutelsat and ESA. The spacecraft will have the first reconfigurable...
by David Todd | Jun 15, 2015 | NASA, Satellites, Technology
The launch of InSight Mars, a NASA mission to land on the planetary surface to study the interior of the planet Mars (InSight stands for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport) will now have some co-payloads with it as it is...
by David Todd | Jun 14, 2015 | ESA, exploration, Technology
As he awaited the start of his tenure as Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) on 1 July 2015, replacing the admired Jean-Jacques Dordain in the role, Dr Jan (Johann Dietrich) Woerner noted his enthusiasm for a planned lunar base and village on the Moon...
by David Todd | Jun 13, 2015 | China, History, Technology
In the same month that Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II and UK Prime Minister David Cameron attended the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, a bedrock of the democratic values and freedoms we know today, there was further evidence of...
by David Todd | Jun 12, 2015 | commercial launch services, Technology
Having already replaced Warren Boley Jr as its CEO in February, US rocket engine manufacturer, Aerojet Rocketdyne, has had a change of CEO again. This time it was, Scott Seymour, 64, who left at the beginning of June at short notice. He is replaced by Pratt and...
