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Space News September 30, 2016

Rosetta Comet Probe’s Grand Finale

With today´s final touchdown of the Airbus Defence and Space built Rosetta probe on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, one of the most spectacular space missions has finally…

Space News September 26, 2016

ESA’s Zero Gravity A310

Who wouldn’t want to run an experiment in lunar or martian gravity? ESA is offering European researchers the chance to test their theories on aircraft…

Space News September 21, 2016

METimage: New Weather Data Every 1-7 seconds

DLR and Airbus Defence and Space sign 291 million euro contract for innovative meteorological instruments Launched on Metop-SG-A polar-orbiting weather satellites from 2021 Airbus Defence…

Space News September 14, 2016

Airbus Defence and Space’s Gaia spacecraft delivers data on 1.1 billion stars

• Gaia’s ultra-stable silicon carbide platform has enabled accurate mapping of 1.6 billion stars with 1.1 billion published today • Precision optical instrument could pick…

Space News September 12, 2016

Expansion broadband Africa thanks to Boeing GiSAT satellite

Boeing will build a 702 satellite, called GiSAT, with a new digital payload offering twice the capacity of previous digital payload designs. The customer, Cayman…

Space News September 8, 2016

Countdown to Launch: Lockheed Martin-Built WorldView-4 Imaging Satellite Encapsulated for Sept. 16 Launch

Vandenberg air force Base, Calif., Sept. 8, 2016 – The WorldView-4 satellite, built by Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) for DigitalGlobe, Inc. (NYSE: DGI), has been encapsulated in…

Space News September 8, 2016

Airbus Defence and Space’s PerúSAT-1 satellite ready for take-off

• PerúSAT-1 is Peru’s first satellite • Preparations complete for satellite launch scheduled for 16 September 2016 The PerúSAT-1 satellite, designed and built by Airbus…

Space News September 7, 2016

NASA’s Record-breaking Astronaut, Crewmates Safely Return to Earth

NASA astronaut and Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams returned to Earth Tuesday after his U.S. record-breaking mission aboard the International Space Station. Williams and his…

Space News September 5, 2016

ESA found Philae on comet

Less than a month before the end of the mission, Rosetta’s high-resolution camera has revealed the Philae lander wedged into a dark crack on Comet…

Space News September 1, 2016

SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket explodes during test firing in Florida

(Reuters) An explosion destroyed a Falcon 9 rocket belonging to Elon Musk’s SpaceX during routine test firing at Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday, shaking…

Space News August 25, 2016

Boeing Delivers Advanced Satellite Communications Network to Mexico

EL SEGUNDO, Calif., Aug. 25, 2016 – Boeing [NYSE:BA] has delivered one of the world’s most advanced satellite communications systems to Mexico, one that opens…

Space News August 24, 2016

Earthquake in Italy: e-GEOS, within the Copernicus program, provides satellite images, maps and data in support of the rescue operation

In the early hours of this morning the operating centres in Rome and Matera of e-GEOS, the joint venture between Telespazio (Leonardo – Finmeccanica/Thales) and…

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