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Astronauts return after marathon ISS mission

Ozires Silva to Receive the Daniel Guggenheim Medal for Influential Contributions to Aerospace

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Mar 3^rd 2021 |

Ozires Silva, Co-Founder/Past President, Embraer, has been awarded the 2020 Daniel Guggenheim Medal for his education...

Nomination

Virgin Galactic Announces Aerospace Systems and Engineering Leadership Appointments

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Mar 1^st 2021 |

Virgin Galactic today announced the appointments of Swami Iyer as its President of Aerospace Systems and Stephen Just...

Wallops' Caitlin Burth Works Projects from the Stratosphere to Space

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Feb 3^rd 2021 |

Name: Caitlin BurthFormal Job Classification: Aerospace EngineerOrganization: Code 548, Mechanical Systems Branch, Wallops Flight Facility (WFF)What do you do and what...

ISS moves to avoid space debris

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Sept 23^rd 2020 |

Astronauts on the International Space Station carried out an "avoidance maneuver" Tuesday to ensure they would not be hit by a piece of debris, said US space agency NASA, urging better management of objects in Earth...

Vega rocket launches from French Guiana

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Sept 3^rd 2020 |

Europe's Vega rocket returned to the skies on Wednesday from French Guiana in its first mission since a failed launch last year.The rocket left Earth around an hour before midnight local time after the launch was pos...

Astrobotic Awarded $199.5 Million Contract to Deliver NASA Moon Rover

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Sept 2^nd 2020 |

Astrobotic’s Griffin lunar lander to carry the NASA VIPER mission to the south pole of the Moon in 2023, as a precursor to a human landingPittsburgh, PA – ...

Airbus expands its SpaceDataHighway with second satellite

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jul 16^th 2020 |

The EDRS-C satellite, the second node of Airbus’ SpaceDataHighway constellation, completed its commissioning tests on 15th July 2020 and is now ready to start op...

Protecting Earth from asteroids: Airbus has a solution

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Feb 18^th 2020 |

t’s a scenario worthy of a Hollywood movie thriller: an approaching asteroid threatens the Earth, and an industry team is busily working on converting a telecomm...

SpaceX in 'perfect' test of Crew Dragon emergency abort system

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Jan 20^th 2020 |

SpaceX successfully tested its emergency abort system on an unmanned spacecraft moments after launch Sunday, according to a live broadcast of the event, the last majo...

Europe faces up to new space challenges

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Nov 28^th 2019 |

European ministers met Wednesday in Spain aiming to defend its top space ranking against challenges from the United States and China, and increasingly from industry disruptors such as Elon Musk's Space X.Ministers of ...

Fifty years after Moon mission, Apollo astronauts meet at historic launchpad

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Jul 16^th 2019 |

Fifty years ago on Tuesday, three American astronauts set off from Florida for the Moon on a mission that would change the way we see humanity's place in the universe....

NASA tests launch-abort system for moon-mission capsule

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Jul 4^th 2019 |

NASA carried out a successful test Tuesday of a launch-abort system for the Orion capsule designed to take US astronauts to the Moon.The three-minute exercise at Cape...

China conducts first sea-based space rocket launch

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jun 5^th 2019 |

China launched a space rocket from sea for the first time on Wednesday, its space agency announced, the latest step in Beijing's push to become a major space power.Th...

China to build moon station in 'about 10 years'

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Apr 24^th 2019 |

Beijing plans to send a manned mission to the moon and to build a research station there within the next decade, state media reported Wednesday, citing a top space official.China aims to achieve space superpower stat...

China envisions moon base after far-side success

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Jan 14^th 2019 |

China will seek to establish an international lunar base one day, possibly using 3D printing technology to build facilities, the Chinese space agency said Monday, weeks after landing a rover on the moon's far side.Th...