Tag Archives: European Space Agency

SpaceX has launched its Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station along with NASA research payloads and a new observation facility to support future space exploration efforts beyond low-Earth orbit.

United Launch Alliance has launched a new multinational space mission that aims to support observations and studies of the Sun.

Rick Ambrose, executive vice president of Lockheed Martin’s space business and a four-time Wash100 award recipient, told Yahoo Finance in a video posted Tuesday about the manned mission to the moon by 2024.

The Lockheed Martin-built Orion spacecraft is scheduled to arrive at an Ohio-based NASA remote testing facility Tuesday to undergo a series of space environment simulation tests. Lockheed, Airbus and the U.S. and European space agencies will collaborate on the two-phase testing effort.

Airbus has built the first of two planned ocean satellites for an international mission aimed at monitoring changes in sea level to support coastal protection efforts.

Airbus has awarded Maxar Technologies‘ MDA business a contract to design subsystems for a rover NASA and the European Space Agency plan to use in a joint mission to collect and return samples from Mars to Earth. MDA will aim to develop mobility and sample acquisition systems for potential integration into a “Sample …

Representatives from NASA, the European Space Agency and industry have announced that the first service module for the Orion spacecraft will be delivered to the U.S. in late October, Space News reported Wednesday. Mike Hawes, vice president and Orion program manager at Lockheed Martin, said during the 69th International Astronautical …

NASA has worked with Northrop Grumman and Ball Aerospace to assess the capability of the James Webb Space Telescope’s two main components to communicate with each other. Engineers and technicians used ground wires to temporarily connect the spacecraft to the telescope as part of the optional “risk reduction” test, NASA …

A General Atomics business has added a provision to the navigation receiver of a baseline remotely piloted aircraft to support connections with the European Union and the European Space Agency’s Galileo satellite constellation. The baseline MQ-9B initially used a triplex navigation platform compatible with the U.S. global positioning system and …

The European Space Agency has tapped Airbus to design a rover and a spacecraft that will be launched in 2026 to retrieve samples of Martian soil and bring them back to Earth for study. The Toulouse, France-based company said Thursday that the Mars Sample Return mission will involve sending the Mars Sample Fetch …

Airbus has connected 10,000 lasers in a satellite network made to facilitate large amounts of observation data. The SpaceDataHighway system collects data from low-orbit satellites and transmits at a speed of 1.8 gigabits per second with a total relay of 40 terabytes daily, the company said Friday. The system’s Munich-based mission operation …

NASA plans to award the first contract for the Lunar Orbital Platform Gateway program in early 2019, Bloomberg reported Friday. The Gateway program is designed to serve as the space agency’s “staging” platform for studies of the deep space environment and the moon as well as a future station for …

NASA has pushed back from 2019 to May 2020 the launch of its James Webb Space Telescope to give the program’s engineers more time to test and integrate the telescope and spacecraft components. “All the observatory’s flight hardware is now complete, however, the issues brought to light with the spacecraft element …

Inmarsat has received a European Space Agency contract to develop satellite communication technologies that provide 4D trajectory air traffic management. The Iris program entails technologies that will be used to support European airspace traffic management beginning 2020, the company said Tuesday. Developed technologies will compose the Iris system that will make use of Inmarsat’s SB-S …

A Maxar Technologies subsidiary has received a potential $3.2 million contract to design a payload technology for an Airbus satellite developed to support space-based data transmission efforts. MDA will develop preliminary designs, evaluate applicable tools and identify enhancement methods for the optical data relay payload of Airbus’ third SpaceDataHighway satellite, also called the European Data …