Named for the astronomer who pinpointed Earth’s true position in the Solar System, the Galileo satellite navigation system that will help Europe find its way in the 21st century now…
The 14th SpaceOps International Conference on Space Operations took place from Monday 16 to Friday 20 May in Daejeon, South Korea, organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics…
HUNTSVILLE, Ala., NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will visit NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on Friday, May 20, to present a major agency award to representatives of the…
Couture in orbit: from spacewalk to catwalk with ESA ESA and the Science Museum in London are working with five leading fashion schools around Europe to design clothes for the…
On Tuesday 3 May 2016, Marwan Lahoud, President of GIFAS (the French Aerospace Industries Association), presented the 2015 results for the French Aeronautical, Space, Defence and Security Industry. “2015 was…
· European launcher industry takes decisive consolidation step · Closing of agreement expected in Q2 2016 · Phase 2 of transaction is a decisive step for Ariane 6 new generation…
Wednesday 27 April in Brussels, CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall took part in a lunch debate chaired by Franck Proust where he presented France’s space strategy to European MPs from…
During its annual Japan Week event in Tokyo, Arianespace is celebrating 30 years of partnership with Japanese operators and manufacturers, and 30 contracts for launches into geostationary orbit, as it…
Joint-venture with Airbus Defence and Space to build estimated $85 million automated facility in Florida to manufacture nearly 900 satellites The satellites are designed in Toulouse (France)…
Paris, 11 April 2016 France-Japan space cooperation Thursday 7 April, a France-Japan seminar on “Cross-cutting perspectives in space law” was organized at the Office of the United Nations in Vienna…
The Near Infrared Spectrograph (NIRSpec) and Mid-Infrared Instrument (MIRI) will equip the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) mission set for launch in 2018 On-board the James Webb Space…
• Airbus Defence and Space heat shields will keep mission capsule safe as it descends through the Martian atmosphere • Airbus Defence and Space will also build the Mars rover…
Wednesday 9 March, Ariane 5 completed a flawless launch from Europe’s spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre, orbiting the Eutelsat 65 West A telecommunications satellite for operator Eutelsat. The flight…
An Ariane 5 lifted off this morning to deliver telecom satellite Eutelsat-65 West A into its planned transfer orbit. Liftoff of flight VA229 occurred at 05:20 GMT (02:20 local time,…
Airbus Defence and Space’s qualification model of the solar array for the Orion spacecraft operated flawlessly during a deployment test Solar array with bird-like movement enables special task of powering…