CNES President Jean-Yves Le Gall met Roberto Battiston, President of ASI, the Italian space agency, on Friday 30 May in Rome on the occasion of a conference organized by the University of La Sapienza, the largest in Europe and one of the oldest seats of learning in the world. Jean-Yves Le Gall was invited by … Dowiedz się więcej
From unusual training to upholding cherished traditions, everything is being done to ensure that ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst and his crewmates arrive at the International Space Station on Thursday safely and in good health – including being flipped upside down and relieving themselves on the wheel of a bus. The crew landed at the Baikonur … Dowiedz się więcej
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) confirmed the current status of the Advanced Land Observing Satellite „DAICHI-2” (ALOS-2), which JAXA launched on the H-IIA Launch Vehicle No. 24 from the Tanegashima Space Center at 12:05 p.m. on May 24, 2014 (Japan Standard time, JST.) The deployment of the solar array paddles has been confirmed to … Dowiedz się więcej
The first two Galileo Full Operational Capability (FOC) satellites are a confirmed “fit” for their Arianespace Soyuz launch later in 2014 after making initial contact with the medium-lift mission’s dual-payload dispenser in French Guiana. This week’s activity – called the fit check – was completed over a two-day period inside the Spaceport’s S1A payload preparation … Dowiedz się więcej
NASA Television will provide live coverage of the departure of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the International Space Station beginning at 9 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 18. After leaving the space station, the capsule will splashdown in the Pacific Ocean carrying more than 3,500 pounds of NASA science samples and cargo. Dragon is set … Dowiedz się więcej
