Having lost their first satellite Angosat-1 shortly after launch last year, in May the Angolan National Space Programme Management Office (GGPEN) formally announced the order of a YAMAL USP (VICTORIA) bus/platform replacement from RSC Energia. The finance for the...
The ongoing row between the United Kingdom and the European Union over the Galileo work share is becoming increasingly bitter. The argument began when the EU prevented British companies from bidding on new work for the EU-financed, ESA-developed Galileo navigation...
Sentinel-3B, now officially called Copernicus Sentinel 3B in being part of the European Union’s Copernicus environment programme, was launched at 1757 GMT on 25 April 2018 from the Russian Plesetsk launch site. Rockot’s upper stage delivered the 1150 kg Sentinel-3B...
The European Union (EU) earlier this year ended its attempt to turn the joint EU/ESA operated commercial Galileo navigation signal into a revenue service – always an unlikely prospect given that its competitors the US GPS and Russian Glonass signals are free. ...
The likely life-changing effects of the allegedly Russian-produced Novichok nerve-poison assassination attempt on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia, and to a lesser extent on an attending police officer, in the city of Salisbury, Southern...
The Independent Enquiry Commission chaired by Toni Tolker-Nielsen, ESA Inspector General, has reported the results of its analysis of the Ariane 5 launcher’s trajectory deviation during Flight VA241 flight on 25 January 2018. The faulty launch left SES-14 and Al Yah 3...
