Satellite News

ESA and Airbus Defence and Space as the industrial prime contractor have signed the first contractual documents to start the development and construction of a series of MetOp Second Generation (MetOp-SG) weather satellites.

The team preparing NASA’s next Mars lander mission gained a green light today to begin building the spacecraft, which will study how Earthlike planets form. Lockheed Martin will now begin building the InSight spacecraft.

The Space Foundation has released The Space Report 2014:The Authoritative Guide to Global Space Activity. Data was compiled from original research and a wide variety of public and private sources, and analysed by Space Foundation researchers.

The Supervisory Board of OHB AG has approved the Management Board’s resolution to convert the company into a Societas Europaea (SE).