It might have been by design or not, but the launch of three astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) found itself becoming part of the celebrations of the Apollo 11 landings 50 years ago. With its “unlucky number” 13 (space watchers will...
The much-vaunted European Galileo navigation satellite constellation financed by the European Union (EU) and devised by the European Space Agency (ESA), is supposed to offer equivalent reliability and accuracy to the US GPS system. So there was more than a little...
The Spektr-Rontgen-Gamma X-ray astronomy observatory, better known as Spektr-RG, was launched at 1230 GMT on 13 July 2019, from the Baikonur Cosmodrome near Tyuratam in Kazakstan. The first burn of the Block DM-03 upper stage placed it and Spektr-RG into an initial...
Having finally lost the support of her own MPs, and the Conservative Party in general, as she tried to get her rejected “Brexit” deal with the EU though parliament for a fourth time, Theresa May has finally formally given in her notice to quit. She will no...
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA/Earth Observation Programs directorate) have signed launch services contract for the launch on a Vega rocket of SEOSat (Spanish Earth Observation SATellite) for Spain’s Center for Development of Industrial...
The European Space Agency’s Aeolus – Earth Explorer Atmospheric Dynamics Mission – for wind profile monitoring is in trouble as the spacecraft’s main wind measurement instrument, using Lidar, has a faulty laser. The laser is now degrading at a rate of 1...
