January 2023
China’s space ambitions fuel defence spending and global innovation
... 20 satellites for 13 countries (Algeria, Argentina, Belarus, Bolivia, France, Indonesia, Laos, Nigeria, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sri Lanka, ... the other half went to defence. China, Japan, France and Russia were the next four biggest spenders. US and...
13 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... market demands, especially lower prices spurred by competition from SpaceX. Germany preferred an evolution of Ariane 5 (Ariane 5 ME) while France advocated a new Ariane 6 “family” of launchers with two versions: one for large payloads and one for...
03 May 2016
Martian Seasonal Streaks May be Caused by Boiling Water
An international team from France, Britain and the United States has ...have made the lines. The team, led by Marion Masse of the University of Nantes in France, included several of the authors of last year's headline-making study. They placed a block ...
15 September 2016
Scientists shed light on how our gas giants got their different rings
... rings around giant planets are a team of astronomers from France and Japan, who have constructed a series of simulations to ... the “Nice Model” – named after the location in Nice, France, where the model was initially developed – and according to the ...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
..., a former airline pilot, will be the 10th astronaut from France to head into space. During his time on the ISS, Pesquet... will perform around 50 scientific experiments for ESA and France’s space agency CNES under a mission known as Proxima. ...
07 August 2019
Crater evidence points to a past mega-tsunami on Mars
...years ago, say an international team of researchers from France, Australia and Spain. News that Mars was once covered...Geophysical Research is F. Costard at Université Paris-Saclay, France, after they picked through data collected from the Mars Orbiter...
