October 2021
Technology transfer and the ‘local’ space market
... in Scotland has been involved with projects such as NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope and ESA’s GAIA, ExoMars, BepiColombo and Sentinel missions. Its extensive activities have been significantly boosted by the burgeoning, commercial NewSpace...
June 2022
Military space – how worried should we be?
... - the Great Leap (2nd edition) (Praxis/Springer, 2019) and European-Russian Cooperation in Space - from de Gaulle to ExoMars (Praxis/Springer, 2021).
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... repeatedly delayed. Now with ESA on board, who already have substantial investments in other Russian-EU programs such as ExoMars, the lunar mission may finally achieve its 2019 launch target.
23 February 2018
UK to host world’s first commercial deep-space communications station
....” “By the middle of the next decade, ESA’s deep-space communication needs for supporting today’s missions, like ExoMars, and upcoming spacecraft, like Juice, is expected to exceed our present capacity by around half,” says ESA’s Pier...
09 July 2018
Plans for a future Mars rover to return soil samples to Earth
... launch in July/August 2020. Airbus is already in the process of building another rover bound for Mars (ESA’a ExoMars rover) at its Stevenage base and after securing a contract worth £3.9 million from ESA, the knowledge and...
01 April 2019
First independent confirmation of methane on Mars
... origin of the detected Martian methane, so the PFS instrument is set to continue monitoring Mars' atmosphere. Meanwhile, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will also continue its search for the molecule from high above in Mars...
