Satellite News

In preparation of the launches of the ESA Copernicus Sentinel-3A and Sentinel-2B satellites on Rokot in 2015 and 2016, the launch adapters for these missions were fit-checked successfully.

Following intense work during the past weeks between all partners involved with the EDRS programme, in particular the European Commission, ESA and Airbus, the business prospects of EDRS have been consolidated.

Integral, one of ESA’s longest-serving and most successful space observatories, has begun a series of four thruster burns carefully designed to balance its scientific life with a safe reentry in 2029.

SpaceX has dropped a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force after winning an agreement from the government that the company will be certified for the Evolved Expendable Launch Vehicle (EELV) programme, according to a statement from SpaceX.