by Dan Thisdell | Feb 2, 2012 | Soyuz, space station
Europe formally put its Galileo satellite navigation project on track to provide a functional service during 2014 and near-global coverage in 2015 with the signing of contracts to build and launch eight more satellites. The €215 million package, signed today in London...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 23, 2010 | ESA, Seradata News, Soyuz
Speaking to Hyperbola at the launch of the UK Space Agency today European Space Agency director-general Jean-Jacques Dordain said that a decision would be made in April about when the first Samara Space Center Soyuz 2-1a rocket flight from Sinnamary in French...
by Rob Coppinger | Mar 16, 2010 | commercial launch services, exploration, NASA, Satellites, Soyuz, Technology
Along with Flightglobal.com and NASA Arianespace has decided to jump on the iphone app bandwagon
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 25, 2010 | commercial launch services, ESA, Russia, Soyuz
Media coverage of a new European rocket increasingly referred to as Ariane 6 is slowly building momentum. Much of this slow burn excitement is due to the belief that the new launcher will replace the continent’s workhorse, Ariane 5. But it is likely it...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 18, 2010 | Ares, Commercial human spaceflight, Constellation, COTS, exploration, NASA, Orion, Russia, Soyuz
As the first week of February edges closer it would seem that the fiscal year 2011 NASA budget request, which all and sundry expected to reveal the new US human spaceflight vision, will do no such thing This re-tweeted tweet care of the well informed Jeff Foust and...
by Rob Coppinger | Jan 7, 2010 | commercial launch services, ESA, Satellites, Soyuz
Not the famous astronomer but the European Union flagship project that will deliver space based navigation services, at some point in the future and at some unknown price tag and that’s officialToday European Commissioner for transport Antonio Tajani...
