by Matt Wilson | Jan 20, 2021 | Constellation, Satellites, Seradata News, Space politics, Technology
The European Commission has selected providers for the second-generation of its Galileo satellite navigation system. The announcement, on 20 January, identified European space industry stalwarts Airbus Defence and Space (Airbus DS) and Thales Alenia Space (TAS) as the...
by Matt Wilson | Apr 2, 2020 | Constellation, ESA, Launches, Russia, Satellites, Seradata News, Soyuz
It has been reported that one of the first missions for the yet-to-launch Ariane 6 has been given to the rocket it is intending to replace. This mission concerns the first two Batch 3 satellites for the European Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS). These...
by David Todd | Jul 15, 2019 | ESA, Satellites, Seradata News
The much-vaunted European Galileo navigation satellite constellation financed by the European Union (EU) and devised by the European Space Agency (ESA), is supposed to offer equivalent reliability and accuracy to the US GPS system. So there was more than a little...
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 30, 2018 | Military space, Seradata News
Having had its space companies barred by the European Commission from working on the EU Galileo navigation system after Brexit, the UK has decided to forge ahead with its own new satellite navigation system. In doing so, it was confirmed by Prime Minister Theresa May...
