by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | History
Aerospace engineers normally do their utmost to try to avoid unwanted “delamination” (the splitting of layers) in composite structures, but just such a delamination now apparently underway in the UK’s Labour Party after its leader Jeremy Corbyn...
by David Todd | Nov 22, 2018 | ESA, Seradata News
Europe’s space programme had its share of political ups and downs in November. The most surprising news was the unexpected firing of Roberto Battiston as head of the Italian Space Agency by the Italian government. He had been in post for four years. Save for a very...
by David Todd | Jun 27, 2017 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
At the Paris Air Show, the European Space Agency, on behalf of itself and its European Union partner, which provides most of the funding, formally signed a construction order for eight more Galileo satellites from the constructor team led by OHB System AG, which...
by David Todd | Apr 6, 2017 | Blue Origin, Seradata News, SpaceX
At the Space Symposium 2017 conference in Colorado, the European Commission (EC) – the European Union’s (EU) executive and policy making arm – announced that it would ask European states to fly on Arianespace Ariane 6 and Vega-C rockets. Elzbieta Bienkowska, the EC’s...
by Matt Wilson | Nov 17, 2016 | commercial launch services, Launches, Satellites
In the first of what is planned to be three launches, an Arianespace, Ariane 5 heavy-lift launch vehicle has lifted-off from Kourou, French Guiana, carrying four Galileo GPS satellites for the EU. The launch took place at 1306 GMT, 17 November, from the Ariane Launch...
