by David Todd | Mar 20, 2019 | History
The disastrous uncertainty of the current Brexit impasse is a chagrin to the UK space industry and to the nation’s other industries, who, in truth, would rather that the UK was not leaving the EU at all. Meanwhile, leaver opinion is hardening and now appears to...
by David Todd | Feb 18, 2019 | History
Just as aerospace engineers normally do their utmost to try to avoid unwanted “delamination” (the splitting of layers) in composite structures, perhaps so should leaders of political parties. For just such a delamination is now apparently underway in the...
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...
