Thales Alenia Space strengthens Spanish space industry leadership through its participation in SpainSat NG II satellite The Spanish secure communications satellite SpainSat NG II, successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida,…
Airbus-built SpainSat NG-II secure communications satellite successfully launched Getafe, Spain, 24 October, 2025 – SpainSat NG-II, the second Airbus-built new generation secure communications satellite for Spain, has been successfully launched from the…
Lifted into space from the Guiana Space Centre by an Ariane 6 launcher on Tuesday 12 August 2025, the IASI-NG instrument (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer-New Generation) flying on the MetopSGA1…
Orbital Transfer Vehicle Propulsion System Market Report 2024–2040 Featuring Aerojet Rocketdyne, Busek, Bellatrix Aerospace, IHI Aerospace, CASC, Safran, Exotrail, Dawn Aerospace, OKB Fakel, and Others The orbital transfer vehicle propulsion…
Using 11 years of magnetic field measurements from the European Space Agency’s Swarm satellite constellation, scientists have discovered that the weak region in Earth’s magnetic field over the South Atlantic…
During recent storms, satellites recorded ocean waves averaging nearly 20 metres high – as tall as the Arc de Triomphe in Paris and the largest ever measured from space. Moreover,…
Satellite navigation is essential to everything from tracking your morning jog to landing air ambulances. But as reliance on satellite navigation grows, so do the risks associated with its interruption,…
Galileo relies on ground-based uplink stations (ULS) to maintain accurate positioning for users worldwide. These stations transmit essential data to the satellites, including the information required to compute the satellites’…
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a €50 million contract with aerospace company Thales Alenia Space to begin the preliminary design phase of the Security And cryptoGrAphic (SAGA) mission….
– Boeing 702MP+ platform coupled with a Viasat payload designed to add more than 1Tbps capacity to satellite operator’s global network – Spacecraft features electric propulsion, structural enhancements, as well…
As ESA’s space activities expand in scale and complexity, there is a growing demand for interoperable systems capable of managing information across multiple missions, centres, and partners. Traditional tools, often…
We know the drill”: Sentinel-1D begins streamlined simulations training For over a decade, mission control teams at the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) have successfully commissioned and operated most of…
UNDER EMBARGO UNTIL 17 September 2025, 17:00 CEST: XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change XRISM uncovers a mystery in the cosmic winds of change The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy…
Last week, ESA officially handed over its third European Service Module to NASA. The module will power Orion on Artemis III, the mission set to return astronauts to the lunar surface for…
Scientists created the most accurate three-dimensional map of star-formation regions in our Milky Way galaxy, based on data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia space telescope. This map will teach us more…