Arianespace is to gain from knowledge acquired by seniors through their experience – and will increase the emphasis on hiring younger people – as the result of an agreement that ensures the perspectives and capabilities of these two age groups is available to the company. The agreement, called “Generation Contract,” promotes the sharing of views … Dowiedz się więcej
The hot and energetic Universe and the search for elusive gravitational waves will be the focus of ESA’s next two large science missions, it was announced today. Both topics will bridge fundamental astrophysics and cosmology themes by studying in detail the processes that are crucial to the large-scale evolution of the Universe and its underlying … Dowiedz się więcej
Indra has closed an agreement with the European Space Agency to host the main processing and archiving centre for the images of the Sentinel-2 mission at its facilities and take charge of its operation. This contract will strengthen the consultancy and technology multinational’s position as an operator of Earth observation image processing centres, consolidating its … Dowiedz się więcej
The first FOC satellite in the future European navigation system Galileo has mastered the most difficult of all the environmental impact tests with flying colors. Over a period of four weeks, the satellite known as “Doresa” was tested under the most severe space conditions imaginable in the thermal vacuum chamber at European Test Services ETS, … Dowiedz się więcej
The 1,812th flight of a Soyuz launch vehicle was performed on Tuesday, 26 November 2013 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan at 00:53 Moscow time (21:53 Paris time on Monday, 25 November 2013). Arianespace and its Russian partners report that the Progress cargo spacecraft was accurately placed on the target orbit for another mission to … Dowiedz się więcej
An international satellite that will set a new standard for global precipitation measurements from space has completed a 7,300-mile journey from the United States to Japan, where it now will undergo launch preparations. A U.S. Air Force C-5 transport aircraft carrying the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Core Observatory landed at Kitakyushu Airport, about 600 miles … Dowiedz się więcej