19 February 2016
Test Masses of ESA's LISA Pathfinder Released Successfully
... Pathfinder was built by Airbus Defence and Space and is the European Space Agency’s gravitational-wave detection technology demonstrator. Airbus Defence and Space is the world´s second largest space company. Satellite operators from ESA, supported...
21 September 2018
Net to capture space junk passes debut debris collection
... is RemoveDEBRIS. This specialist satellite was designed, built and manufactured by a consortium of leading space companies including the Surrey Space Centre, Airbus and the ArianeGroup, and was co-funded by the European Commission. It is also...
29 August 2022
Lift-off draws close for NASA’s spectacular lunar return mission
... 50 years is on launch pad 39B this morning (Monday) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A two-hour launch window for today is scheduled to... and more recently crewed missions from private US space companies such as Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin and Elon...
28 September 2022
Firms pioneer embryo conception mission for ‘space mice'
... for gestation and birth to occur, their development monitored and compared to control samples. Independence-X is a Malaysian space company that has developed a small launch vehicle called DNLV (Dedicated Nano Launch Vehicle) with a maximum payload...
