23 October 2020
Shetland spaceport boosts UK's plans for launch
... the UK’s spaceflight programme – LaunchUK. Lockheed Martin is in discussions with a preferred partner to provide launch services for its UK Pathfinder Launch, which would take place from Shetland Space Centre. UK Government Amanda Solloway, Science...
18 March 2016
President of ISA Against Avio Takeover
... Safran Launchers, the prime contractor for Ariane 5 and Ariane 6, is expected to become a 74 percent shareholder of launch-service provider Arianespace once the European Commission clears the company’s purchase of the 35 percent of Arianespace owned...
12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... beginning at 16:30 CEST. Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane rocket. For more information see: Essential...
26 February 2018
Handbook of Space Law
... covering everything from the history of space law and its international organisational aspects to specific topics such as launch services, satellite communications and insurance. There is also coverage of trade, financing, property rights and the...
December 2014
A door closes
... providing powerful engines, the RD180s, for the Atlas V rockets to launch its most important military satellites into orbit, and many US firms used Russian launch services for their commercial satellites. But after Russia’s annexation of Crimea...
07 October 2015
Google Lunar X Prize sees first verified launch contract
... announced Wednesday that it had signed a launch contract for a lunar module, with take... at the end of 2017. Seattle-based Spaceflight Industries will provide the launch services, using a Falcon 9 rocket purchased from SpaceX. “Last year we made...
