Space Technology and Space Exploration

Russia targets Dec 3 date for first manned ISS launch after accident

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Oct 31^st 2018 |

Russia hopes to launch three crew for the International Space Station on December 3, the first manned blast-off since an accident this month, the Roscosmos space agen...

Boeing Completes Acquisition of Millennium Space Systems

INDUSTRY / TECHNOLOGY | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Sept 27^th 2018 |

Combined capabilities will provide customers with advanced small-satellite technologies and flexible solutionsBoeing completed the acquisition of Millennium Space Syst...

Europe's Ariane 5 rocket blasts off for 100th time

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Sept 25^th 2018 |

A European-made rocket has blasted off from French Guiana for the 100th time, in a symbolic landmark for its manufacturer as it comes under increasing pressure from E...

SpaceX announces new plan to send tourist around Moon

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Sept 14^th 2018 |

SpaceX on Thursday announced a new plan to launch a tourist around the Moon using its Big Falcon Rocket (BFR), a massive launch vehicle that is being designed to carr...

Rocket Propulsion Market Worth $6.36 Billion by 2023

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Aug 30^th 2018 |

PUNE, India, August 29, 2018According to the new market research report "Rocket Propulsion Market by Type (Rocket Motor, Rocket Engine), Orbit (LEO, MEO, GEO, Beyond G...

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...

Scotland chosen as site for first British space port

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Jul 16^th 2018 |

The UK Space agency said Sunday that it had chosen a peninsula on Scotland's north coast as the site of the country's first space port."Scotland is the best place in ...

iBASEt Establishes European Headquarters in France

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Jul 3^rd 2018 |

TOULOUSE, France and FOOTHILL RANCH, Calif., July 2, 2018 -- iBASEt, a leading provider of digital manufacturing, MRO and quality software solutions, today announced ...

Airbus and United Nations team up for universal access to space

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Tue, Jul 3^rd 2018 |

Vienna, 02/07/2018 – Airbus and the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) during the UNISPACE+50...

Airbus and Planet join forces to bring new geospatial products to market

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Mon, Jun 25^th 2018 |

Toulouse, 25 June 2018 – Airbus and Planet have entered into a partnership to facilitate access to each other’s data and the co-development of new geospati...

Clearing out space junk, one step at a time

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jun 21^st 2018 |

An experimental satellite from Airbus’ SSTL subsidiary will test methods of removing orbital debrisSince the start of the space age, mankind has left its mark on the orbital pathways overhead…and not alwa...

Trumps orders Pentagon to create US 'Space Force'

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Mon, Jun 18^th 2018 |

President Donald Trump on Monday ordered the Pentagon to create a new US "Space Force," which would become the sixth branch of the American military but which requires Congressional approval to take effect."I'm hereb...

Nomination

Maxar Technologies' MDA Appoints Chris Pogue as President of MDA Government to Drive Sustained Growth and Increase Profitability

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Wed, Jun 13^th 2018 |

Aligns MDA Organization to Better Serve CustomersBRAMPTON, ON, June 12, 2018 /PRNewswire/ - MDA, a Maxar Technologies...

Nomination

Northrop Grumman Completes Orbital ATK Acquisition, Blake Larson Elected to Lead New Innovation Systems Sector

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Jun 7^th 2018 |

FALLS CHURCH, Va. – June 6, 2018 – Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) today announced it has closed...

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...