SPACENEWS

Iceberg A-74, approximately 1.5 times the size of Greater Paris, calved from Antarctica’s Brunt Ice Shelf earlier this year. Over the last six months, it has remained close to the shelf it broke away from owing largely to ocean currents. In early August, strong easterly winds have spun the iceberg around the western tip of Read More

ESA / After years in development and testing, the LEDSAT 1U CubeSat is finally in space!  The student satellite, developed under the Fly Your Satellite! programme, was successfully launched on Vega flight VV19 at 03:47 CEST from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.  LEDSAT launch gathering The LEDSAT team and members of the Fly Your Read More

ENAIRE managed 150,000 flights in July, only 32% fewer than in 2019 Domestic flights fared the best, with a fall of 9.2%In the first seven months of the year, ENAIRE managed nearly half a million flightsIf the flights are compared to those of July 2020, the number is 84% higher ENAIRE managed nearly 150,000 flights Read More

Sequence of 89 images taken by the monitoring cameras on board the European-Japanese BepiColombo mission to Mercury, as the spacecraft made a close approach of Venus on 10 August 2021. It was the second of two Venus gravity assist flybys needed to set course with Mercury. The sequence includes images from all three Monitoring Cameras Read More

….at 6:01 PM EDT from Wallops Island Virginia 8-10-21! Under sunny skies with mild winds the NG-16 mission liftoff occurred at 6:01 PM EDT from launch complex OA at Mid Atlantic Regional Spaceport called MARS Tuesday August 10th. The Cygnus cargo spacecraft will stay docked at the ISS Unity module for about three months. After Read More

ENAIRE, Spain's national air traffic manager, is enhancing its position as a leader and benchmark in Europe in air safety management. The day-to-day work of ENAIRE's professionals is guided by the mission of providing quality air navigation services in a way that is safe, efficient and environmentally friendly, the goal being to turn ENAIRE into Read More

Grab a cool drink and some shades and get ready to watch our next rocket launch! Northrop Grumman is targeting liftoff of its Antares rocket and Cygnus spacecraft for no earlier than 5:56 p.m. EDT (21:56 UTC) Tuesday, Aug. 10, from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia. Launch coverage on NASA TV will begin at Read More

Northrop Grumman’s 16th contracted commercial resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station will deliver more than 8,200 pounds of science and research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware to the orbital laboratory and its crew. This will be the fifth mission under Northrop Grumman’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. Launch is set for Tuesday, Read More

photo caption: ENAIRE air traffic controllers at the Adolfo Suarez Madrid-Barajas Airport Control Tower • The Air Navigation Services Recovery Plan, launched in June 2020, has been enhanced during these months due to the anticipated increase in traffic • ENAIRE is applying a wide range of organisational criteria and measures involving its services, especially air Read More

NASA and Boeing are standing down from the Wednesday, Aug. 4, launch attempt of the agency’s Orbital Flight Test-2 to the International Space Station as mission teams continue to examine the cause of the unexpected valve position indications on the CST-100 Starliner propulsion system. Early in the launch countdown for the Aug. 3 attempt, mission Read More