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ALUULA Composites selected for future NASA Lunar and Mars Missions

Canadian firm ALUULA Composites ultralight and strong composite materials have been selected by Thin Red Line Aerospace for future NASA Lunar and Mars missions.

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Ariane 6 : Airbus and ArianeGroup sign contract for the next transition batch of carbon fibre structures

The contract includes the manufacturing and supply of innovative, large, lightweight structures for the next fourteen Ariane 6 launchers, to be manufactured until 2025.

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09/11/2022

Indra and Centum Electronics compete for the contract to equip India with a space surveillance radar

Spain's Indra and India's Centum Electronics have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to build a radar prepared to detect objects in near earth orbits.
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07/11/2022

Zephyr : Airbus partners with Japan's Space Compass

Partnership between Airbus and Space Compass to serve the Japanese market with mobile connectivity and earth observation solutions from Zephyr platform.
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27/10/2022

GKN Aerospace achieves milestone with first run of RM16 engine in test rig

GKN Aerospace has successfully completed the first engine run of the state-of-the-art RM16 engine that will power the JAS 39 Gripen E. This landmark enables GKN Aerospace to deliver full RM16 product support to the Swedish Armed Forces, ensuring engine availability for future Swedish Air Force missions.
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25/10/2022

Airbus and Salam join forces for High Altitude Platform Station (HAPS) connectivity services

Airbus´ HAPS Connectivity Business has signed a strategic partnership with Salam, a leading Saudi telecommunications and ICT company and part of the Mawarid Media & Communications Group (MMCG), to progress the development of private networks, IoT applications, disaster management solutions and other connectivity and high-altitude Earth observation services from the stratosphere to serve the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
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18/10/2022

Meeting with the Director General of the European Space Agency

We interviewed Josef Aschbacher, Director General of the European Space Agency, at the 73rd International Astronautical Congress. This was an opportunity to take stock of the ministerial conference to be held on November 22 and 23 in Paris.
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13/10/2022

Ariane 6 upper stage successfully fired on its test bench

The future European heavy launcher program has just reached a new decisive stage.
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29/09/2022

Erems: a nugget from the Occitan region that is becoming more independent

On the occasion of the International Astronautical Congress, we interviewed Gérard Dejonghe, president of Erems, one of the main space equipment manufacturers in the Occitania region.
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29/09/2022

SABCA joins the European reusable launcher project Themis

With more than 100 years of existence, SABCA is part of the Belgian and European aeronautical/aerospace landscape. After Ariane 5, Vega and the future Ariane 6, SABCA will also participate in the Themis program. This launcher should enable Europe to have a launcher capable of being reusable in order to be able to compensate for the other offers present on this growing market.
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22/09/2021

France Relance: the first winners of the space component

The first winners of the space section of the France Recovery Plan are now known. Others will benefit from this €515 million boost, including €150 million for dual research.
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24/03/2021

Airbus wins first geostationary 'satcom' of the year

Airbus Defence and Space will build the Eutelsat 36D geostationary communications satellite for French operator Eutelsat. It is scheduled to be launched in 2024.
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17/03/2021

Return to flight of the Chinese Long March 7A launcher

The second attempt of launch will have been the good one for the new generation medium launcher, almost one year to the day after the failure of its inaugural flight.
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13/03/2021

Launch of Indian GISAT-1

The Indian hyper and multi-spectral earth observation satellite, equipped with a SWIR sensor, was put into orbit with a 4-year delay.
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11/03/2021

Military Space: Beijing defies Washington

The Chinese automatic shuttle CSSHQ launched on September 4th placed a satellite in orbit just 50 km from the USA 276 vehicle. One of the most sensitive platforms in the U.S. space arsenal.
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02/03/2021

The first assembled Eurostar Neo satellite

Every weekend, an image that made the news or caught our attention. On February 12, Airbus broadcast an image of its new Eurostar Neo satellite platform, currently being tested in Toulouse.
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28/02/2021

Military Space: Towards Autonomous Microwave Weapons ?

Americans and Chinese are looking for military satellites that are energetically autonomous and capable of emitting microwave beams over long distances.
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12/01/2021

The DGA makes official the successful completion of the first flight tests of the Vision daytime star finder

Safran Electronics and Defense and Sodern offer France a new technology, applicable to several strategic fields. A new potential for economic growth for manufacturers.
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05/01/2021

French military satellite CSO 2 launched

Arianespace launched at the end of 2020 French second military satellite CSO. His capabilities are classified.
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29/12/2020

First flight of the new Chinese Long March 8 launcher

China continues to accumulate space successes, with the commissioning this morning of a new medium-power, potentially reusable launcher.
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22/12/2020

Europe to evaluate reuse with Themis demonstrator

Following the Space19+ ministerial conference, ESA has entrusted ArianeGroup with the launch of the first phase of development of the European first-stage demonstrator for the Themis reusable launch vehicle.
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12/12/2020

UAE's Falcon Eye satellite: a major military export contract

A look back at the first UAE reconnaissance satellite, the last of which was launched on Arianespace's VS24 mission.
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03/12/2020

UAE launches to orbit its first spy satellite

Arianespace has successfully launched Emirates observation satellite FalconEye, using a Soyuz launcher launched from Guiana Space Center
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02/12/2020

First debris removal mission.

Swiss start-up ClearSpace SA signed an agreement with European Space Agency for the first removal of space debris from Low Earth orbit in the world.
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30/11/2020

Lauching the first work on the European space telescope Ariel

The future European mission dedicated to exoplanets has moved from the study phase to the implementation phase. The offers from industrialists for the construction of the satellite are now awaited.
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26/11/2020

Beginning of the ambitious Chinese lunar mission Chang’E 5

Chinese lunar exploration mission departed on November 23th, and its main job is no snag about 2kg of lunar material, 44 years after soviet mission Luna 24. Chang’E 5 will come back mid-december
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24/11/2020

SpaceX has stationed the first EU Sentinel 6

Perfect Saturday night launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 from California. On board is a powerful oceanographic altimetry satellite from the European Earth observation program Copernicus.
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17/11/2020

Second flight failure for European launcher Vega

The European light launcher, launched from French Guiana during the night of 16 to 16 November, suffered damage to its fourth stage, which was fatal to the mission.
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13/11/2020

A woman as NASA administrator ?

Speculations on the rise about who will replace Jim Brindestine as NASA administrator.
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10/11/2020

The first iodine satellite of the world

A cubesat equipped with an innovative electric thruster, developed by Paris Region startup ThrustMe, is paving the way for economical and sustainable constellations.
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10/11/2020

Entering the scene for Chinese smallsat launcher Ceres

China is adding a new competitor in the commercial market for small satellite launches.
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09/11/2020

First Indian launch of the year

Every weekend, a picture that made the news or caught our attention. On November 7, India placed ten satellites into low orbit using its small PSLV launcher operated from the Sriharikota base.
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04/11/2020

Space in the Presidential race

In the inglorious campaign that has just ended on the other side of the Atlantic, the two candidates for the presidential election did not distinguish themselves much in terms of their ambitions in terms of space.
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04/11/2020

Ariane 6's first flight postponed by a year

The future European heavy launcher will not take off before the second quarter of 2022. The delay is blamed on the health crisis, which is expected to cost member states an additional 230 million euros.
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30/10/2020

Electron becomes the second most used American launcher in 2020

The American-New Zealand operator Rocket Lab deployed ten new small Earth imaging satellites last night, making it one of the most active American operators of the year.
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28/10/2020

Moon: Airbus turns dust into oxygen

Space Europe was thought to be obsessed with Mars and timid about the conquest of the Moon. Each week that passes brings its share of technological innovations for lunar exploration. Fortunately, from elsewhere.
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28/10/2020

First flight over Venus by the BepiColombo probe

Every weekend, we publish an image that made the news or caught our attention. On October 15, the Euro-Japanese probe on its way to Mercury performed a gravitational assistance manoeuvre in the vicinity of Venus.
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26/10/2020

Kissing an asteroid

Nasa's Osiris-Rex spaceprobe, launched four years ago, visibly succeeded in the night of October 20-21 in collecting the first American sample on an asteroid.
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19/10/2020

China approaches its record number of orbital launches

With a thirtieth launch attempt this year, China is since yesterday in the first place of the world space leaders.
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08/10/2020

Thales Alenia Space’s site in Toulouse generates green energy

Thales Alenia Space chose EDF Group subsidiary EDF ENR to install its French-made solar carports at the Toulouse site.
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01/10/2020

Earth-imaging and scientific payloads arrive for Arianespace’s Vega mission in November

Spain’s SEOSAT-Ingenio (at left) is readied for the startup of its checkout process in the Spaceport’s S5 payload preparation facility, which will begin after the external wrapping is removed. In parallel, the French Taranis scientific satellite (at right) undergoes an initial inspection in another of the S5 clean room areas.
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24/09/2020

The European Space Agency embarks on a planetary defence mission

Europe is preparing alongside the Americans to protect themselves from near-Earth asteroids that would threaten the Earth.
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21/09/2020

Airbus selected for ESA’s new polar ice and snow topography mission

CRISTAL will measure sea ice thickness and ice sheet elevations. Airbus in Germany will lead the industrial consortium. Contract is worth € 300 million.
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16/09/2020

Braking action for the Japanese H3 launcher

The Japanese Space Agency in turn announces delays in the development of its future heavy launcher.
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15/09/2020

THALES ALENIA SPACE TO PROVIDE KEY TECHNOLOGY TO HERA, ESA’S PLANETARY DEFENCE MISSION

HERA aims to find out if we are capable of deflecting an asteroid and prevent it from hitting Earth.
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10/09/2020

ENGIE and ArianeGroup team up to develop renewable liquid hydrogen

ENGIE and ArianeGroup have just announced the signing of a cooperation agreement in the field of renewable liquid hydrogen to speed up the decarbonisation of heavy-duty and longdistance transportation.
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09/03/2020

Successful launch for Airbus’ Bartolomeo

Bartolomeo is now on its journey to the International Space Station (ISS)
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02/03/2020

First commercial life-extension service in orbit

On February 25, Northrop Grumman's MEV-1 tug achieved a historic milestone, docking the old Intelsat 901 satellite beyond the geostationary orbit.
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14/02/2020

Space defense: France joins Combined Space Operations

France decides to join the Allied Combined Space Operations initiative. The objective of this initiative is to coordinate the efforts of the seven participating nations in the area of ​​space defense.
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13/02/2020

The White House further bolsters space activities

The Trump administration’s new budget proposal, presented nine months before the next U.S. presidential election, further bolsters — both civilian and military — space activities.

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