13 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...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... time ago? With a target launch of October 2018, BepiColombo, a joint mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), hopes to uncover the mysteries surrounding our innermost planet and, in doing so, help...
October 2017
Colouring our view of the oceans
... by the launch of the proof-of-concept ‘Coastal Zone Colour Scanner’ by NASA. It took another two decades for space agencies to launch global ocean colour observations. Today, the data from these observations are vital for a broad...
April 2021
Predicting dengue fever outbreaks from space
... in cases of dengue over the past 50 years and the 30 countries where it is most endemic. D-MOSS is funded by the UK Space Agency’s (UKSA) International Partnership Programme and the first system implementation took place in Vietnam in June 2019. The...
