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Europe's IXV atmospheric reentry demonstrator arrives in Kourou Publié le 29/09/2014 | Space | 315
IXV (Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle), the European Space Agency’s atmospheric reentry demonstrator, developed and integrated by Thales Alenia Space as prime contractor, arrived today at the...
Publié le 29/09/2014 | Space | 564
The European Space Agency’s Rosetta mission will deploy its lander, Philae, to the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko on 12 November. Philae’s landing site, currently known as...
Publié le 26/08/2014 | Space | 394
Two and a half months before the long-awaited touchdown of Philae, the Rosetta spacecraft’s small lander, CNES convened scores of scientists from CNES, ESA and...
Airbus Defence and Space delivers Sentinel-2A environmental monitoring satellite for testing Publié le 22/08/2014 | Space | 245
- The satellite, which weighs around 1.2 tons, is scheduled to be launched in the first half of 2015 - Sentinel-2A is one of the European...
Publié le 06/08/2014 | Space | 575
The Rosetta comet chaser developed and built by Airbus Defence and Space for the European Space Agency (ESA) has arrived at its destination after flying...
NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Payload to Explore the Red Planet as Never Before Publié le 01/08/2014 | Space | 1214
NASA announced the selected Mars 2020 rover instruments Thursday at the agency's headquarters in Washington. Managers made the selections out of 58 proposals received in...
Publié le 30/07/2014 | Space | 606
The fifth and final mission of ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle got off to a flying start today with its launch from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou,...
Rockwell Collins showcasing F-35 Lightning II HMDS at Farnborough Publié le 03/07/2014 | Defense | 599
In celebration of the F-35 making its international debut, the Rockwell Collins ESA Vision Systems F-35 Lightning II Helmet Mounted Display System (HMDS) will be...
Publié le 19/06/2014 | Space | 1007
After more than seven years in orbit, the CoRoT satellite has reached the end of its mission life. Decommissioning operations begun in December last year,...
Publié le 12/06/2014 | Space | 299
Talks with Mr des Dorides and Mr Weissenberg focused essentially on issues related to European satellite navigation programmes, particularly future Galileo services. Headquartered in Prague,...
 
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