SPACENEWS

Friday’s SpaceX Transporter-4 mission included three satellites built by smallsat mission integrator NanoAvionics for multiple customers. MP42 is NanoAvionics’ largest satellite built and launched so far, based on one of the first commercially available modular microsatellite buses in the industry. MP42 is a rideshare mission, and part of the company’s ongoing program. It’s hosting multiple Read More

3 2 1 Ignition & liftoff was not an April Fools joke today at 12:24 PM EDT or 16:24 UTC from launch complex 40 Cape Canaveral Florida today. With dramatic clouds in the background SpaceX Transporter 4 was visible for 20 seconds before enveloped in clouds and on its way to space. First Stage booster Read More

ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer, Juice, is set to embark on an eight-year cruise to Jupiter starting April 2023. The mission will investigate the emergence of habitable worlds around gas giants and the Jupiter system as an archetype for the numerous giant planets now known to orbit other stars. This animation depicts Juice’s journey to Read More

ESA is going to the Moon – in collaboration with its international partners – and seeks to build a lasting lunar link to enable sustainable space exploration. The agency has now evaluated initial ideas to create a network of lunar telecommunications and navigation satellites. Creating a commercial telecommunications and navigation service for the Moon will Read More

     JAL Engineering Co., Ltd. to deploy IFS aviation maintenance solution in the cloud to modernize long range maintenance planning for its nearly 200 aircraft fleet           Announcement continues IFS expansion of its commercial aviation MRO footprint across Asia-Pacific and globally IFS, the global cloud enterprise software company, today announced the Read More

Global leaders will attend the Inaugural 'Future Aviation Forum' 9th May 2022 in Riyadh Global aviation leaders will unite in Riyadh for Saudi Arabia's first-ever Future Aviation Forum. The two-day event, happening May 9th, will unite leaders from the public and business sectors, international CEOs, and regulators to shape the evolution of international air travel and Read More

An expansion of a global data series that enables scientists to explore how the climate crisis impacts the world’s lakes has been released. This new climate data record – which covers some 2000 lakes across the world – draws on information delivered by numerous international Earth observation missions.  Development of the dataset was coordinated by Read More

2025 Flight Plan Arias, a company that received the EFQM 500 Seal in 2021, shared the experience of Spain's air navigation service providerThe scalability of services in response to demand, the internationalisation of the company and the cultural, digital and organisational transformation comprise ENAIRE's transformation strategiesIn attendance, together with ENAIRE and the Club for Excellence Read More

New approach procedures The new procedure has been put in service at RWY 01The safety and resilience of operations are further improved, as is the continuity of the air navigation serviceENAIRE, the first company in Spain to be FPD certified, designs, documents and validates the new flight procedure, including maintenance and periodic review ENAIRE, Spain's Read More

Data from the Tropomi instrument onboard the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite has been used to detect methane plumes over some of Europe’s largest methane-emitting coal mines. Methane is an important greenhouse gas emitted from natural sources, such as wetlands, as well as human activities including agriculture, wastewater management and fossil-fuel production. Methane is the second most Read More