13 May 2016
Arianespace's Next Soyuz mission begins payload integration with Galileo spacecraft.
... issued by Arianespace, "Danielė" and "Alizée" will become the 13th and 14th FOC (Full Operational Capability) spacecraft to join Europe’s Galileo navigation system – which was conceived to provide high-quality positioning, navigation and timing...
30 November 2020
Chang'e 5 separates from spacecraft, prepares for a lunar soft landing
... body. The lander-ascender combination of the spacecraft separated from its orbiter-returner combination at 4:40...moon-sample mission for more than 40 years. The spacecraft is performing well and communication with ground control is normal...
11 May 2020
Spacecraft and telescopes join forces to probe deep into Jupiter's atmosphere
...'s Hubble Space Telescope and the ground-based Gemini Observatory in Hawaii have teamed up with the Juno spacecraft to probe the mightiest storms in the solar system, taking place more than 500 million miles away...
April 2019
The changing economics of space
... the end of their lives with a suite of operational hardware on-board that it still functioning. It’s just that the spacecraft has run out of fuel and can’t be fully controlled. Representation of a mega constellation around Earth. Enabling missions...
October 2020
Superconductors - key to unlocking high power space missions
... mass, of such cables increases exponentially, as does the amount of waste heat generated. In the case of nuclear-powered spacecraft, long distances are necessitated due to safety considerations, and the mass of conventional systems becomes even more...
November 2016
Rosetta - an eventful cruise phase
...somewhere a leak of the helium gas on-board the spacecraft. The spacecraft was safe at this time, as the potential ..., to analysing, planning and testing a configuration of the spacecraft that would reduce the active units to the absolutely essential ...
