09 March 2016
Components of ExoMars 2016 come together in preparation of launch next week
... and a suite of instruments dedicated to exobiology and geochemistry research. Both missions will be carried out in cooperation with Roscosmos, who are providing the proton rockets. The main objectives of the 2016 mission are to search for...
14 March 2016
And it's off! ExoMars 2016 launches successfully
... successfully from Baikonur, Kazakhstan at 09:31 GMT this morning. ESA, who have partnered with Russian space agency Roscosmos to provide the proton launcher for the mission are expecting the first acquisition of signal at around 21:29 UTC...
10 June 2016
Intelsat 31 Telecommunications Satellite Successfully Placed in Orbit
...'s second stage (which had underperformed) with a longer burn sequence, and successfully put the satellite in orbit. Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, noted that one of the four second stage engines shut down nine...
13 June 2016
NASA signs an agreement with United Arab Emirates
... has made. Last year UAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Russian Federal Space Agency “ROSCOSMOS,” along with similar deals made with UK and China. Speaking of the agreement with NASA, Al Romaithi says...
16 November 2016
Proxima mission to the ISS ready for launch tomorrow
On Thursday 17th November, ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Roscosmos commander Oleg Novitsky will head to the International Space Station on a two day flight aboard a Soyuz rocket ...
27 November 2017
ASTROSCALE and SSTL join forces to get rid of space debris
... microsatellite in LEO. The microsatellite will launch tomorrow (28 November) with the Russian State Space Corporation Roscosmos meteorology mission Meteor-M No2-1 at 14:41:46 (JST) from Russia’s Vostochny Cosmodrome and once operational, it will...
