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...
The Universities and Science Minister for England, Jo Johnson, who had responsibility tor space under Greg Clark, Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, has been moved to the Ministry of Transport in Prime Minister Theresa May’s UK government...
The last ten Ariane 5 rockets have now been formally ordered from ArianeGroup – the joint firm formerly known as Airbus Safran launchers. This leaves 23 Ariane 5 launchers in production or to be produced, from the PB+ and PC batches which will be marketed by...
While the new Vega C can launch 800kg more payload into orbit for about the same price as the current Vega rocket, it remains an expensive rocket at circa US$42 million per launch. As such, the European Space Agency has launched a design programme for a new version...
