Estonia took a step further in its relations with ESA by signing the Accession Agreement to the ESA Convention on 4 February 2015, to become the 21st ESA Member State. The signing ceremony took place at the ESA Headquarters in Paris with the participation of Jean-Jacques Dordain, ESA Director General, Anne Sulling, Estonian Minister of … Dowiedz się więcej
In preparation of the launches of the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-2B satellites on Rockot in 2015 and 2016, the launch adapters for these missions were fit-checked successfully. The Sentinel-2B mechanical and electrical fit-check and launcher separation shock test was conducted in mid-October 2014 at the IABG Test Center in Ottobrunn, Germany. For the actual … Dowiedz się więcej
The Lockheed Martin [NYSE:LMT]-built Orion spacecraft gently splashed down into the waters of the Pacific Ocean at 11:29 a.m. EST, completing the first test flight of NASA’s deep space exploration capsule. After a successful launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket at 7:05 a.m. EST this morning, Orion … Dowiedz się więcej
Europe’s fifth Galileo satellite, one of two delivered into a wrong orbit by VS09 Soyuz-Fregat launcher in August, has transmitted its first navigation signal in space on Saturday 29 November 2014. It has reached its new target orbit and its navigation payload has been successfully switched on. A detailed test campaign is under way now … Dowiedz się więcej
Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] has started the assembly, test and launch operations (ATLO) phase for NASA’s InSight Mars lander spacecraft. The InSight mission will record the first-ever measurements of the interior of the red planet, giving scientists unprecedented detail into the evolution of Mars and other terrestrial planets. InSight is scheduled to launch in March … Dowiedz się więcej
Rosetta’s lander Philae is safely on the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, as these first two CIVA images confirm. One of the lander’s three feet can be seen in the foreground. Source / Author: ESA Photo: ESA