05 July 2019
JAXA, DLR to cooperate on Martian moons mission
...potential targets for up and coming interplanetary missions, the Japanese Space agency want to do things a little differently. Instead of touching...studies of the rover, both DLR and the French space agency CNES will then build the vehicle as a joint ...
February 2016
Searching for water in the Solar System
... a long integration time. Hence, other missions under formulation include a rendezvous and even a lander. The Japanese space agency JAXA is even proposing an ambitious mission with a solar-sail spacecraft that would perform a sample return from...
03 September 2022
Hydrogen fuel leak scuppers second Artemis 1 launch attempt
... to Mars. NASA’s giant SLS rocket was poised to make a second attempt to fly today (Saturday) after the US space agency declared it had identified and fixed an engine issue that caused the postponement of the original launch attempt...
12 March 2015
New rockets on the scene: ESA approves Ariane 6, Vega-C
... Joint Venture (JV) “naturally assumes an in-principle agreement for the transfer to the JV of shares in Arianespace held by” the French space agency, CNES. A decision on that issue has not yet been made. CNES owns 34.68 percent of Arianespace. The...
15 May 2019
New funding under fire for Moon 2024 Artemis mission
... Year 2020 budget request to add another $1.6 billion on top of the initial $21 billion Budget Request, to accelerate the space agency’s efforts in returning to the Moon. These extra funds, said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine in a video message...
17 November 2020
Vega fails during launch of European Earth observation satellites
... SEOSAT-Ingenio for ESA and TARANIS for the French space agency, CNES. Two and a half months after Vega’s... lightNIng and Sprites, an Earth observation microsatellite for the French space agency, CNES. It was designed to observe luminous, radiative and...
