30 November 2020
Researchers discover solid phosphorus in comet 67P
... phosphorus has been found in a comet though. The first detection of this crucial element was made by NASA’s Vega 1 mission as it flew by comet 1P/Halley in 1986. It was later detected in dust particles collected by NASA’s Stardust spacecraft during...
09 February 2022
Gilmour looks to Europe for mission critical launcher system
... on SENER's launch vehicle heritage with AVIO's hybrid navigation NAVIGA unit, which will be first used on the VEGA-C European launch vehicle. NAVIGA is a mission-critical system that combines equally two key elements for future...
10 January 2023
Virgin Orbit fails to deliver on first launch from UK
... Ukraine war, which has cut access to Russian Soyuz vehicles, as well as Ariane 6 delays and the grounding of Vega rockets after a failed launch last month. Matt Archer, director of commercial spaceflight at the UK Space Agency (UKSA...
26 March 2019
UK Space Agency offers free satellite data of Britain
... enabled application development.” After the award of two data contracts to Airbus, Defence and Space and Telespazio Vega UK Ltd in October 2018, commercial archives of images and radar data have now been downloaded to a satellite data...
12 May 2021
ESA signs contract with Swiss agency to clean space debris
...-up, ClearSpace SA. Dubbed 'ClearSpace-1', the one of a kind pilot project will aim to secure a decommissioned payload adapter, Vespa (Vega Secondary Payload Adapter) from the graveyard orbit for safe disposal via atmospheric re-entry. The ClearSpace...
