... as a planetary defence technique. ESA Ministers also secured a smooth transition to the next generation of launchers: Ariane 6 and Vega-C, and have given the green light to Space Rider, ESA’s new reusable spaceship, which will mostly...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
...-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...