SPACENEWS

Heralds an era of high-performance connectivity with SES delivering dedicated, carrier-grade solutions from space to customers whenever and wherever desired SES announced today that the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:48 pm local Read More

• The award acknowledges ENAIRE's job placement programme for people with disabilities • The Envera project, in which ENAIRE is a partner, has managed to employ 247 people with mental, physical and/or sensory disabilities in Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, 119 of them in the aviation sector ENAIRE, Spain's air navigation service provider, Read More

• This further enhances the safety and consistency of operations, as well as the continuity of the airport's air navigation services • The new procedures rely on the European EGNOS system for runway 07 ENAIRE, the national air navigation service provider, has improved operations at the Reus Airport with new satellite-based navigation instrument approach procedures. Read More

The European Platform for Sports Innovation (EPSI), in close collaboration with The European Space Agency (ESA), is organising a webinar for the promotion of ESA’s call “Inclusive and Accessible sport”. The online event will be hosted on the 15th of December from 2.00 pm to 3.00 pm CET. Participants are welcome to register using the Read More

Today marked the end of the first Artemis Moon mission, when NASA’s Orion spacecraft splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 17:40 GMT/18:40 CET, after travelling around the Moon and farther than any spacecraft designed to carry humans and return them to Earth. Just 40 minutes before splashdown, and having delivered Orion safely back to Read More

... at 2:38 AM ET December 11th 2022 from Cape Canaveral Florida SLC-40.Hakuto-R M1 is a technology demonstration mission one and has survived the rigors of launch plus separation from the 2nd stage including deployment by SpaceX and is in communication with ispace headquarters in Japan for completion of two out of the 10 major Read More

.... in a combined spirit of cooperation 12-8-22 Liftoff 5:27 PM ET for OneWeb 15 their first trip with SpaceX and a Falcon 9 reflight booster carrying 40 internet satellites on a polar trajectory from LC-39A Cape Kennedy Florida at sunset. First stage booster B-1069-4 made its fourth trip to space and re-landed at Cape Read More

NASA’s Orion spacecraft, powered by ESA’s European Service Module, shares a stunning new take on ‘Earth rise’ following the return powered flyby of the Moon.   DCIM\100GOPRO\G0081549. This image was taken on 5 December, flight day 20, after the spacecraft completed a 3 minute 27 second burn to swing around the Moon and back to Earth.   Read More

The US Patent and Trademark Office has granted OQ Technology, the pioneer of 5G IoT satellite services, patents for its “frequency synchronisation” and “timing synchronisation” technology. The two synchronisation technologies are already used for communicating with the satellites in the company’s growing 5G IoT (Internet of Things) constellation connecting IoT devices globally.Following the patent grant Read More

A contract signed today between ESA and Arianespace has ensured rides into orbit for five Copernicus Sentinels: Sentinel-1D, Sentinel-2C, Sentinel-3C, and the Copernicus Anthropogenic Carbon Dioxide-A and -B satellites. All the satellites will be launched on Vega-C rockets from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana and are scheduled to take place between 2024 and 2026. The Read More