Meet the Astronauts who will fly on NASA’s SpaceX’s Crew-3 Mission

The astronauts who will fly on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station have finished training and are ready to go. The SpaceX Crew-3 mission will carry NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, and Kayla Barron, as well as ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer aboard a Crew Dragon launched on a Read More

The president of ENAIRE receives the EFQM 500 Seal

…for its safe, efficient, innovative and sustainable management of air navigation services The Secretary of State for Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda and ENAIRE's President, Isabel Pardo de Vera, received the internationally recognised EFQM 500 Seal today at the Ministry's headquarters, which was presented by the Club Excelencia en Gestión. This three-year seal recognises ENAIRE's Read More

NASA’s Lucy Satellite Leaves AstroTech Clean Room & Is Transported To Launch Complex 41 by ULA!

NASA's Lucy satellite has made her way in the early morning hours today 10-7-21 from the Lockheed Martin AstroTech Clean Room in Titusville Florida to the United Launch Alliance SLC-41 at Cape Canaveral for integration with the Atlas V booster & Centaur upper stage. The once in a lifetime journey to Jupiter's Trojan asteroid swarms Read More

Father of ERS wins Nobel prize in physics

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded a share of this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics to Klaus Hasselmann in acknowledgment of his contribution to ‘the physical modelling of Earth’s climate, quantifying variability and reliably predicting global warming’. Among Prof. Hasselmann’s long list of outstanding achievements, ESA also recognises him as one of the Read More

ENAIRE improves operations at the San Sebastian Airport with satellite manoeuvres

ENAIRE improves the accessibility of the San Sebastian Airport by implementing new procedures based on satellite navigation for departures and arrivals. Since these procedures do not depend on ground-based navaids, they provide a highly useful solution as an alternative to the current, conventional approaches, especially when the existing facilities are out of order or during Read More

A European push to the moon

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXtsi_pKGTc 06-10-2021 10:30 AM CEST Video: 00:03:50 The European Space Agency is playing a vital role in humankind’s return to the Moon. In a few months NASA will launch Artemis 1 from the Kennedy Space Center. The uncrewed mission will carry NASA’s Orion spacecraft incorporating ESA’s European Service Module (ESM-1), built and tested by Airbus Read More

ENAIRE celebrates “Human Factor Days” to analyse the relationship between technology and personal skills

Starting today, ENAIRE is holding the "Human Factor Days" congress online until 1 October, with EUROCONTROL, an intergovernmental organisation for air navigation safety; FAA, the US aviation agency; Austro Control, Austria's air navigation service provider, and Aprocta, the professional air traffic controllers association. Ángel Luis Arias, CEO of ENAIRE, opened the congress. photo Enaire photo Read More

The Lucy Mission To The Trojan Asteroids:    Sept 29,2021

With limited preliminary funding NASA selected the Lucy Mission as a concept in Sept. 2015 and It started taking shape with a very small team of dedicated scientist, mission planners, engineers and staff. In Jan 4th 2017 NASA gave the green light with full approval in Phase A funding for this deep space mission the Read More

Lucy: The First Mission to the Trojan Asteroids

animation of movement of inner planets, Jupiter and Jupiter's Trojans During the course of its mission, Lucy will fly by seven Jupiter Trojans. This time-lapsed animation shows the movements of the inner planets (Mercury, brown; Venus, white; Earth, blue; Mars, red), Jupiter (orange), and the two Trojan swarms (green) during the course of the Lucy Read More

CGTN Channels to Switch to HD in SES and Globecast Renewal Agreement

For the first time, three CGTN channels will be broadcast in HD via SES’s prime neighbourhood of ASTRA 19.2 degrees East Audiences across Europe are now able to watch China Global Television Network (CGTN) channels in high-definition (HD) due to a new capacity agreement, SES announced today. Globecast, the global solutions provider for media, has Read More