Sentinel-1A satellite has unfolded its antenna after successful launch
Darmstadt, 04 April 2014 Airbus Defence and Space radar antenna unfolded and locked Sentinel-1A has been successfully launched on Thursday night from the Kourou spaceport…
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French Company Orders 7 Additional Russian Soyuz Rockets
MOSCOW, April 4 (RIA Novosti) – French space launch company Arianespace has signed a contract with the Russian space agency Roscosmos for the delivery of…
NASA Severs Ties with Russia, Except for ISS
WASHINGTON, April 3 (RIA Novosti) – The US space agency NASA officially announced it has suspended some space-related contacts with Russia amid tensions over Ukraine,…
Thales Alenia Space-built Sentinel-1A, the first satellite in Europe’s Copernicus program, ready for launch
The European Space Agency’s Sentinel-1A satellite, designed and built by Thales Alenia Space, is ready to be launched from the Guiana Space Center in French…
Russian Soyuz Spacecraft Delivers New Crew to Space Station
KOROLYOV, Moscow Region, March 28 (RIA Novosti) – A Russian Soyuz spacecraft automatically docked with the International Space Station after a two-day delay early Friday…
Finalists Announced For Orion’s Exploration Design Challenge
Winning Radiation Experiment to Fly on Exploration Flight Test-1 Evaluators from Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT], NASA and the National Institute of Aerospace (NIA) have selected…
Boeing on Schedule to Deliver World’s 1st All-Electric Satellites
Primary structures completed for two Boeing 702SP spacecraft for ABS and Eutelsat EL SEGUNDO, Calif., March 24, 2014 — Boeing [NYSE: BA] is on track…
Lockheed Martin-Built Weather Satellite Encapsulated For Upcoming Launch
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif., March 20, 2014 – A Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) satellite built by Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has been encapsulated…
NASA Releases First Interactive Mosaic of Lunar North Pole
Scientists, using cameras aboard NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO), have created the largest high resolution mosaic of our moon’s north polar region. The six-and-a-half feet…
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will fly to the International Space Station in 2016
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to a long-duration mission on the International Space Station, it was announced today. The assignment of the French-born…
UPCOMING MISSION: FALCON 9 AND DRAGON LAUNCHING TO SPACE STATION
Early in the morning on Sunday March 16, SpaceX is set to launch its third Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) mission to the International Space Station….
ESA to certify first Galileo position fixes worldwide
To mark the first anniversary of Galileo’s historic first satnav positioning measurement, ESA plans to award certificates to groups who picked up signals from the…
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