13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
...will “have the same DNA,” Dordain explained at a press conference after the meeting. That should reduce costs through ... design authority for Ariane 6, rather than ESA. In a press release today, Airbus and Safran said they welcomed ESA’s approval of...
04 October 2016
Results of this years Nobel Prize in Physics is released
... understanding of matter’s mysteries and creating new perspectives on the development of innovative materials.” In the accompanying press release issued with the decision, the Academy further states, “thanks to their pioneering work, the hunt is now...
13 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... council’s chairman and a former head of the Russian space agency. Russia’s space program — as described in the Roscosmos press release — will include a series of robotic missions to lunar orbit and the surface of the moon in the 2020s in preparation...
06 October 2015
Facebook, Eutelsat to beam Internet from space to Africa
... new technologies,” he said. The Israeli company Spacecom’s Amos-6 satellite will fly in geostationary orbit, Eutelsat said in a press release. Facebook and Eutelsat have agreed to pay $95 million for a five-year lease on the satellite’s Ka-band spot...
13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
... by UK-based Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) – which is 99-percent owned by Airbus Defence and Space. According to a press release issued by Arianespace, "Danielė" and "Alizée" will become the 13th and 14th FOC (Full Operational Capability...
13 September 2017
New constellation to reshape Earth observation market
... updates, even if the satellites are beyond their ground stations’ line-of-sight.,” reported Airbus in their recent press release. With plans for their next-generation ground segments to offer machine learning, automated analytics applications, multi...
