Space Missions

In this week’s Space Café WebTalk, Juan de Dalmau, President of the International Space University (ISU), Strasbourg, France, talked about education programs and network opportunities to be prepared for a career in the global space industry. “We adopted to I S(ee) U!”  He talked about how the International Space University develops the future …

Luxembourg, 15 October 2020. – One step closer to its maiden flight in 2022: Rocket Factory Augsburg (RFA) inaugurated a test site in Sweden, the German micro-launcher start-up said. The company wants to conduct the first hot fire engine tests of its RFA ONE vehicle later this year in Esrange …

Luxembourg, 15 October 2020. – Isar Aerospace goes to Kourou. The company has signed an agreement with the French Space Agency CNES to prepare the launch of its orbital launch vehicles from the Centre Spatial Guyanais (CSG) in French Guiana, the company said. “This spaceport of CNES is the only …

Luxembourg, 15 October 2020. – The thrust is right: all engines for Europe’s new Ariane 6 have now been tested and are ready to be mounted on the rocket’s core stage, ArianeGroup said. The qualification tests for the boosters have been completed at the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana, the …

Luxembourg, 15 October 2020. – Another success for Airbus: the company has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) as one of the two primes for the definition phase of the European Large Logistic Lander (EL3). Airbus will develop the concept of a large logistic lander which is able …

by Jose Salgado It’s no longer a matter of who arrives first but who stays the longest. A permanent human presence on the Moon is vital to create the lunar economy. This is what NASA’s Artemis program intends to do as early as 2024 at a cost of $30 billion. …

Luxembourg, 14 October 2020. – Rideshare provider Spaceflight will execute three customer missions on two upcoming launches in the next weeks, the Seattle-based company announced today. Spaceflight will execute two launches on two different continents, the company said, one aboard a Rocket Lab Electron and the other on NewSpace India …

Luxembourg, 14 October 2020. – Airbus has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for its ambitious five-year mission to go to Mars and bring the first samples from the Red Planet back to Earth, the company announced in Toulouse. Airbus acts as ESA’s prime contractor for the Earth …

Luxembourg, 14 October 2020. – NASA has calculated the economic impact of its activities on the U.S. economy in 2019 at a stunning $64.3 billion, the U.S. space agency said in a recently published report. The first-ever agency-wide economic impact report shows that, through all NASA activities, the agency generated …

Luxembourg, 13 October 2020. – Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit is looking to raise up to $200 million of funding, valuing the company at around $1 billion, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) reported. “The fundraising comes as the British billionaire’s sprawling travel-to-finance empire and the wider commercial space industry have been …