Airbus-built Solar Orbiter has been fitted inside its protective fairing, mounted on top of the launcher and is now ready for its launch from Cape Canaveral in the evening of 9 February 2020. The next time the satellite will see the Sun will be when it’s in space on its …
Read More »UAE Space Agency Launches Satellite Challenge As Part Of UAE Hackathon 2020
The UAE Space Agency launched a "Satellite Challenge" event as part of “UAE Hackathon 2020 - Data for Happiness and Wellbeing.” During UAE Innovation Month.
Read More »Europe And Russia Gear Up For Joint Luna-27 Lunar Lander
The first European device to land on the Moon this decade will be a drill and sample analysis package, and the teams behind it are one step closer to flight as part of Russia's Luna-27 mission.
Read More »CHEOPS Space Telescope Produces First Images
The cover on the CHEOPS space telescope was opened successfully on 29 January 2020. It is now being tested for precision and its first images are being produced.
Read More »RUAG Space Contributes Key Components To Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter Mission
A United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket with Sun Explorer Solar Orbiter is scheduled to launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on 7-8 February 2020. RUAG Space is supplying the thermal insulation, the structure of the satellite, and the on-board computer.
Read More »NASA Announces First Commercial Moon Delivery Assignments To Advance Artemis Programme
NASA has finalized the first 16 science experiments and technology demonstrations, ranging from chemistry to communications, to be delivered to the surface of the Moon under the Artemis program.
Read More »ESA And Airbus Sign International Space Station Bartolomeo Platform Contract
The Bartolomeo platform from Airbus gives new opportunities for research on the International Space Station (ISS). The European Space Agency (ESA) has now firmly booked a payload slot for a Norwegian instrument to monitor plasma density in the Earth's atmosphere.
Read More »France’s CNES Signs Space Cooperation Agreement With Chinese Academy of Sciences
As part of the official visit to China of Frédérique Vidal, the Minister for Higher Education, Research and Innovation, Centre national d’etudes spatiales (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall and Bai Chunli, President of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), signed a framework agreement on space cooperation on 13 January 2020.
Read More »CNES’s Jean-Yves Le Gall Looks Ahead At French Space Programme For 2020
Centre national d'études spatiales (CNES) President Jean-Yves Le Gall presented his New Year wishes to the press at the agency’s Head Office in Paris Les Halles on 7 January 2020.
Read More »Arianespace Tapped To Launch Euclid Dark Energy Exploration Satellite For ESA
Arianespace and the European Space Agency (ESA) have announced the signature of a launch services contract for the Euclid satellite - with the mission's timeframe for liftoff starting in mid-2022 from the Guiana Space Centre, Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, South America.
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