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Space News June 25, 2020

Airbus and ESA sign agreement to continue ISS operations

Comprehensive services contract for 2020, worth around €16 million, ensures operation and use of European ISS components Research has been conducted in low Earth orbit…

Space News March 9, 2020

Successful launch for Airbus’ Bartolomeo

The Airbus built Bartolomeo platform has been successfully launched on 06 March from Cape Canaveral, Florida, US. Bartolomeo is now on its journey to the…

Space News January 23, 2020

ESA and Airbus sign contract for Bartolomeo platform on the International Space Station

New research platform scheduled for launch in March 2020 Bremen, 23 January 2020 – The Bartolomeo platform from Airbus gives new opportunities for research on…

Space News November 20, 2019

Airbus-built telescope for ESA’s Euclid mission takes shape

Toulouse, 20 November, 2019 – The Euclid mission is taking shape in Airbus cleanrooms: engineers are now finishing assembly of the telescope, the main instrument…

Space News March 11, 2019

Gateway to the moon

The International Space Station partners have endorsed plans to continue the development of the Gateway, an outpost around the Moon that will act as a…

Space News October 30, 2018

Goodbye Europe hello Moon European Module ships soon

The European Service Module that will power and propel the Orion spacecraft on its first mission around the Moon will ship early next week from…

Space News July 25, 2018

New satellite launch extends Galileo’s global reach

Four more Galileo satellites were launched today by an Ariane 5. Their arrival in orbit brings the Galileo constellation to 26 satellites, extending the global…

Space News July 24, 2018

Preparing to fly the wind mission

The launch of Aeolus — ESA’s mission to map Earth’s wind in real-time — is getting tantalisingly close, with the satellite due for lift-off on…

Space News July 10, 2018

Largest ever solid rocket engine ready for first hot firing

This week, the largest solid rocket motor ever built in one piece will be test fired at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana for the first…

Space News August 2, 2017

ESA Vega rocket launches two satellites

This morning Arianespace launched a Vega rocket carrying two Earth observation satellites for Italy, France and Israel encased in Vega’s lighter protective fairing. Liftoff of…

Space News December 6, 2016

ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter imaged Phobos

The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter has imaged the martian moon Phobos as part of a second set of test science measurements made since it arrived…

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…

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