ESA NEWS

Air France Job-Dating at the IFTM-Top Résa Trade Show

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Oct 3^rd 2023 |

From October 3rd to 5th, the IFTM-Top Résa Trade Show, which will be held at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles, will offer an opportunity to explore p...

Gulfstream to open a new aircraft service center at Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airport

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Nov 11^th 2021 |

Gulfstream Aerospace has announced that it will build a new aircraft service center at the Phoenix-Mesa Gateway Airpo...

Boeing to open two 737-800BCF conversion lines in Latin America to meet customer demand

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, May 6^th 2021 |

Boeing has decided to establish two 737-800BCF conversion lines in Latin America to meet the growing customer demand...

Join the new era of exploration as an ESA astronaut

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Feb 18^th 2021 |

For the first time in over a decade, the European Space Agency (ESA) is seeking new astronauts to join humankind’s greatest adventure for the benefit of Earth.Ap...

Iberia and Esade join forces to offer a uniquely innovative, in-flight academic experience

AIR TRANSPORT | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Feb 4^th 2021 |

Iberia and Esade have signed a pioneering agreement to enhance customers’ academic experience by providing uniq...

Airbus wins ESA contract to construct third European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Wed, May 27^th 2020 |

The European Space Agency (ESA) has signed a contract with Airbus for the construction of the third European Service ...

The European Space Agency in the service of aviation MRO

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Nov 28^th 2019 |

Aircraft maintenance is not an area that we generally associated with the space sector. And yet, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shown that it can be useful in th...

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 ...

Boeing HorizonX Ventures Invests in BridgeSat to Advance Satellite Communications

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Sept 13^th 2018 |

Investment supports faster, more reliable space-based optical connectivityBoeing [NYSE: BA] today announced its inves...

ESA's Aeolus wind sensing satellite successfully launched from Kourou

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Aug 23^rd 2018 |

Airbus-built Aeolus satellite to map Earth’s wind in real-time Kourou, 22/08/2018 - Aeolus, the European Space Agency’s wind sensing satellite, built by Ai...

New crew blasts off for ISS

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jun 6^th 2018 |

A relatively inexperienced crew of two astronauts and a cosmonaut blasted off Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. German Alexander Gerst o...

Europe's space agency braces for Brexit fallout

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jan 17^th 2018 |

The European Space Agency (ESA) is drawing up contingency plans for projects, commercial deals, and staffing that may be adversely affected by Brexit, senior officials said Wednesday.Programmes throw in flux by Brita...

Russia launches European satellite to monitor Earth's atmosphere

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Oct 13^th 2017 |

Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun's radiation, ...

Flight attendants at Mesa Airlines reach tentative agreement

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Aug 21^st 2017 |

Mesa Airlines Flight Attendants, represented by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA), today announced a tentative agreement with Mesa Airlines management. Th...

ESA boss urges action on 'ticking timebombs' in Earth orbit

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jun 21^st 2017 |

A European Space Agency director urged nations Tuesday to unlock concealed data on the whereabouts of hundreds of thousands of pieces of space junk, or "ticking time ...