The “Radar Vision” Goes On – Two More Sentinel-1 Satellites
Airbus Defence and Space signs €143M contract with Thales Alenia Space New Sentinel instruments ensure services for Copernicus beyond 2029 Airbus Defence and Space, the…
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Airbus Defence and Space signs €350M contract to develop and build JUICE spacecraft, ESA’s next life-tracker inside the Solar System
JUICE spacecraft will study Jupiter and its icy moons As prime contractor, Airbus Defence and Space will employ 150 people and lead a consortium of…
Next Generation of Synthetic Aperture Radar Satellites will see the World in Colour
Major agreement achieved for the next X-band satellite missions during the World Radiocommunication Conference New services in SAR-based Earth Observation will benefit from a new…
U.S. Navy Accepts Fourth Lockheed Martin-Built MUOS Satellite for Secure Communications Network
MUOS-4 Completes Near-Global Network Coverage SAN DIEGO, Dec. 3, 2015 – Following the completion of successful on-orbit testing, on Nov. 30, the U.S. Navy accepted…
LISA Pathfinder blazes a trail en route to L1
LISA Pathfinder was successfully launched this morning from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana Airbus Defence and Space built space science spacecraft begins its eight-week…
LISA Pathfinder ready for launch from Kourou
LISA Pathfinder, the European Space Agency’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, is being readied by engineers from Airbus Defence and Space, the world´s second largest space…
NASA’s Webb Space Telescope Receives First Mirror Installation
NASA has successfully installed the first of 18 flight mirrors onto the James Webb Space Telescope, beginning a critical piece of the observatory’s construction. In…
Be an Astronaut: NASA Seeks Explorers for Future Space Missions
In anticipation of returning human spaceflight launches to American soil, and in preparation for the agency’s journey to Mars, NASA announced it will soon begin…
Boeing Satellite to Expand Mobile Communications Services in Asia
New 702 satellite, Silkwave-1, slated for 2018 launch EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Oct. 27, 2015 – A Boeing [NYSE: BA] 702 satellite will expand multimedia communications…
Lockheed Martin Moves into Full-Scale Assembly and Test of NASA’s Orion Spacecraft
DENVER, Co., Oct. 26, 2015 – Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) and NASA have completed the majority of Orion’s Critical Design Review (CDR) which means the…
NASA Completes Critical Design Review for Space Launch System
For the first time in almost 40 years, a NASA human-rated rocket has completed all steps needed to clear a critical design review (CDR). The…
LISA Pathfinder has left Stevenage (UK) and arrived in Kourou ahead of launch in early December
LISA Pathfinder, the European Space Agency’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator, has left Stevenage ready for launch. It was shipped from the UK to Kourou in…
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