27 April 2018
Another milestone for the SPACE DRONE™ spacecraft
... program that will deliver substantial cost savings to satellite operators and opening the door to new opportunities.” ArianeGroup, which is the lead contractor for Europe’s Ariane 5 and Ariane 6 launcher families, is already a leader in state-of-the...
18 December 2017
Prometheus to power future European launchers
... demonstration. In fact, an oxygen/methane combustion chamber demonstrator (named ROMEO) has already been tested successfully by the ArianeGroup last year. Prometheus will burn a mixture of liquid oxygen and methane which has the added benefit...
15 February 2019
RemoveDEBRIS successfully harpoons target in space
...the RemoveDEBRIS consortium consists of leading space companies and research institutions throughout Europe and Africa, including ArianeGroup, and Innovative Solutions in Space and is co-funded by the European Commission. The debris-collecting device...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... an ECR Microwave Gridded Ion Thruster neutraliser, the first such device outside of Japan. He previously worked at ArianeGroup, where he developed a prototype Microwave Electrothermal Thruster and worked on hollow cathode neutralisers for the RIT...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
..., built and manufactured by a consortium of leading space companies including the Surrey Space Centre, Airbus and the ArianeGroup, and was co-funded by the European Commission. It is also the first of its type to perform a test clean-up operation...
31 May 2019
Melting moon dust with lasers to use in lunar habitats
... new-space company PTScientists, a privately funded organisation who have just signed a cooperation agreement with the ArianeGroup to work together on future Moon missions such as the planned ISRU mission of the European Space Agency (ESA...
