Leading UK space industry consortium calls for greater SME engagement for future satcom services Airbus, KBR, Leidos, Northrop Grumman and QinetiQ invite for SMEs to join its ‘Open Innovation –…
Virgin Galactic signs Space Act Agreement with NASA in the fight against COVID-19 By George Whitesides, CEO Virgin Galactic During the current global crisis, we believe that the space industry…
Plum Brook Station, Sandusky, Ohio 16 March 2020 – The Orion spacecraft for NASA’s Artemis I mission has successfully completed several months of simulated space environment System level testing in…
On 12 March ESA Director General Jan Wörner and Roscosmos Director General Dmitry Rogozin. Will meet by videoconference to discuss the ExoMars project and its progress towards launch readiness.
Bremen, 23 January 2020 – The Bartolomeo platform from Airbus gives new opportunities for research on the International Space Station (ISS). The European Space Agency ESA has now firmly booked…
The Rosalind Franklin rover of the joint ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars mission completed a series of environmental tests at the end of 2019 at Airbus, Toulouse, France. This included final thermal and…
FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla., Dec. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Princess Cruises, the world’s fastest growing international premium cruise line, christened its newest ship, Sky Princess today in a moving tribute to…
SpacewalkForAMS ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano will take the lead spacewalking role yet again on 22 November. Astronaut Andrew Morgan go beyond the International Space Station airlock to service the Alpha…
Toulouse, 19 November, 2019 – The Euclid mission is taking shape in Airbus cleanrooms: engineers are now finishing assembly of the telescope, the main instrument of the Payload Module, for…
Stars form within giant clouds of gas and dust that pervade galaxies like our own Milky Way. This image depicts one such cloud, known as Orion A, as seen by…
Tests carried out show that new wind profile observations from ESA’s Aeolus satellite significantly improve weather forecasts – particularly in the southern hemisphere and the tropics. Carrying breakthrough laser technology,…
HOUSTON, Nov. 5, 2019 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] today submitted a proposal to NASA for an integrated Human Lander System (HLS) designed to safely take astronauts to the surface of…
ESA Education is inviting university student teams to submit proposals related to designing, building and operating an experiment that will be launched to the International Space Station and hosted inside…
Munich, 18 October 2019 – Solar Orbiter, the European Space Agency’s (ESA) flagship mission to study the Sun has completed all tests and is set to be flown to Cape…
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 14, 2019 – NASA and Boeing [NYSE: BA] have initiated a contract for the production of 10 Space Launch System core stages and up to eight Exploration…