Satellite News

Chinese scientists have successfully tested the power system of a Chang Zheng-5 rocket scheduled to serve the Chang’e-5 lunar mission around 2017.

The first flying prototype of the new Soyuz-5 carrier rocket could be built by 2022, Alexander Kirilin, general director of Samara-based Progress rocket and space company, said.

e2v said it has launched a new grade of high-performance microprocessors based on the multicore processors from the Freescale QorIQ family. These processors still produce tens of Gflop of performance, but in addition deliver space grade reliability through e2v’s radiation-tolerant semiconductor technology.

ESA has signed an agreement with the EUR116-million Seraphim Space & Special Situations Fund to work alongside ESA’s Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) Applications programme. The Fund will also back other space-related investment opportunities beyond ESA.