On 5 May 2022 at 0320 GMT, the NASA Crew 3 (Endurance) mission astronauts closed the hatch between their Crew Dragon craft and the International Space Station (ISS). Undocking was autonomous from the forward port of the ISS’s Harmony module at 0520 GMT....
At 0752 GMT on 27 April a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried the NASA Crew-4 mission to Low Earth Orbit (LEO). The launch took place from the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, and saw a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule start its journey to the ISS. This is the first launch of this...
The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a launch contract on behalf of the European Union with French satellite launch provider Arianespace for the launch of the third Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellite. The Sentinel-1C radar satellite, which weighs in at around 2.3...
Sentinel-1B, a key Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) satellite of the ESA/EU Copernicus Earth observation and monitoring programme, has failed in orbit. On 23 December, its C-band SAR Interferometric radar mission for environmental monitoring was shut down after a power...
Arianespace got the year off to a good start thanks to an announcement by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA) confirming plans to carry eight additional Galileo satellites. Arianespace will launch the first two...
European launch provider Arianespace successfully launched an Ariane 5 ECA vehicle from Kourou Space Centre, French Guiana, at 1220 GMT on 25 December carrying the 6.2 metric ton James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The JWST was starting its 29-day transfer to the L2...
