Aerospace

Aerojet Rocketdyne Awarded Contract to Mature Development of a High-Powered Nested Hall Thruster System

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Aerojet Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of Aerojet Rocketdyne Holdings, Inc. (NYSE:AJRD), has been awarded a contract valued at more than $2.5 million from NASA’s Advanced Exploration Systems Division to develop and demonstrate a high-power electric propulsion system. Once fully developed, the technology will help reduce trip times and the cost of human spaceflight to cislunar space … Dowiedz się więcej

ESA: Landing on an asteroid

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This is the micro-lander that ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission would put down on its target asteroid. The asteroid body in question is just 170 m in diameter – the smaller body of the binary Didymos system – so roughly the same size as the Great Pyramid of Giza. It orbits just 1.2 km above … Dowiedz się więcej

Thales Alenia Space has signed €450 million ESA contract to build Sentinel-3C and D satellites for Copernicus program

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Thales Alenia Space is celebrating today the signing with the European Space Agency (ESA), for the contract worth €450 million, to build the Sentinel-3C and D environmental monitoring and oceanographic satellites for the European program Copernicus. Thales Alenia Space is once again prime contractor for these two new satellites, as for the Sentinel-3A and 3B … Dowiedz się więcej

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Primary Mirror Fully Assembled

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The 18th and final primary mirror segment is installed on what will be the biggest and most powerful space telescope ever launched. The final mirror installation Wednesday at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland marks an important milestone in the assembly of the agency’s James Webb Space Telescope. “Scientists and engineers have been … Dowiedz się więcej

ESA: Sentinel-3A fully tanked

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With the launch of Sentinel-3A confirmed for 16 February, preparations for liftoff are charging full speed ahead. The tricky task of fuelling the satellite has now been ticked off the ‘to do list’ and the propulsion team is already decontaminating their equipment before returning home. Official confirmation of the new launch date had to come … Dowiedz się więcej