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AerospaceRoscosmos: a manned mission with the Soyuz for the end of November
The program should resume earlier than expected
The Roscosmos' director of manned spaceflight program Segey Krikalev has talked about the incident that occurred during the launch of the Soyuz MS-10 spacecraft to the International Space Station (ISS),... more

AerospaceTaranto-Grottaglie Airport: agreement signed for sub-orbital flights
Virgin's first airplane should take off in the near future
Taranto-Grottaglie Airport should soon become the first European spaceport to allow the take-off and landing of commercial aircraft in sub-orbital flights in the future, which can be used both for the... more

AerospaceUS to acquire Thales ground segment technology
To respond to distress signals
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in United States, has chosen Thales to develop and build an operational ground station in the south-west part of the country, at Holloman Air... more

AerospaceSoyuz: Roscosmos try to shorten the time for a new manned mission
Theoretically, however, the ISS could work even without astronauts
After yesterday's accident at Soyuz during the launch towards the International Space Station (ISS), caused by a problem in the phase of disengaging the first stage of the launch vehicle which hit the... more

AerospaceSoyuz (2): all launches were suspended until the end of the investigation
The astronauts did not need medical care
The conditions of the two astronauts who remained involved in the Soyuz carrier rocket accident today are "good", so much so that their transportation to the hospital was not needed and would already be... more

AerospaceALA announces jv with Israeli group
And it opens a new branch in Tel Aviv
ALA (Advanced Logistics for Aerospace) announces a joint-venture agreement with the Israeli Group Yail Noa and the opening of a new branch –ALA Israel trading as ALA Yail Aerotech Israel, located in T... more

AerospaceSpace. NASA: expenses for new launch vehicle almost doubled
Boeing will end the funds allocated in advance of three years
The aerospace company Boeing is developing and building the biggest Expendable Launch Vehicle (ELV) in the history of NASA, but due to the difficulties encountered in the course of design and production... more

AerospaceSpace. Engine failure at the second stage of the Soyuz rocket
No problem for the two astronauts, that returned to Earth -VIDEO
During the launch from the Bayqoñyr Cosmodrome of the Soyuz MS-10 launch vehicle with the new crew of the International Space Station (ISS), an engine failure occurred shortly after take-off, specifically... more

AerospaceBoeing HorizonX Ventures invests in Accion Systems to propel satellite capabilities
The US company completed acquisition of KLX Aerospace Solutions
Boeing announced its investment in Accion Systems, a Boston, Mass.,-based startup pioneering scalable electric propulsion technology to transform satellite capabilities in and beyond Earth's orbit. Accion's... more

AerospaceContribution by TAS to return NASA Martian champions on the Earth
Mission to Mars to be continued; two study contracts signed
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), a joint company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced yesterday that it has signed two study contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) in the frame of a joint... more



AerospaceEC to acquire TAS' technology to respond to distress signals
To develop and build an operational ground station
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33 %), has won a contract from the European Commission (EC) to develop and build an operational ground station on La Reunion... more

AerospaceTAS and OHB for the ESA program Plato
Signed a contract for the detection and observation of exoplanets
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the joint-company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has signed a contract with OHB System for the new ESA program PLATO (PLAnetary Transits and... more

AerospaceSpatial exploration. Russia gets out of the US lunar program
NASA assures that it has never received a criticism about it
At the 69th International Congress of Astronautics in Germany, the Roscosmos Director of International Cooperation Dmitry Loskutov stated that the Deep Space Gateway project is not interested in Russia,... more

AerospaceSpace. Roscosmos looks for collaborations with India and China
Attempt to create a single anti-NASA front?
The president of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin has been engaged in important talks for space cooperation both with China and India in the last two days, since Russia is looking for new partners for satellite... more

AerospaceKey-contribution by TAS to Exomars 2020 mission to ESA
The IMU will enable the Rover’s navigation on Mars
Thales Alenia Space (TAS) in the UK achieves the major milestone of delivering its IMU Flight Models to Airbus Defence and Space in UK for integration with the ExoMars Rover. Exomars is a project under... more

AerospaceAvio: 100th launch with Ariane 5
Italian space technology in thirty years of European program collaboration
Mission number 100 of the European launcher Ariane 5 was a success. The launcher exploits the power of the solid propulsion engines and of the Vulcain liquid oxygen turbopump manufactured in Italy by Avio,... more

AerospaceNew international customer for Vega C
The Korean space institute relies on the European launcher
Vega C will orbit the Earth Observation satellite Kompsat-7 of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute (KARI). The mission will take place from the European space center in Kourou, French Guyana, from December... more

AerospaceESA chooses TAS to support data processing from Sentinel satellites
Another success for the Space Alliance between Thales Alenia Space and Telespazio
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the joint-company between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), announced today that it has signed a contract with the European Space Agency (ESA) to provide operations, maintenance... more

AerospaceSpaceX: Japanese billionaire the first private to go "on" the Moon
Unknown the cost of the space travel ticket
It was wrapped in mystery the name of the man that had bought -on September 14th- the first ticket to be brought into the lunar orbit aboard the Big Falcon Rocket carrier rocket built by SpaceX, the Elon... more

AerospaceEarth Observation: new business success for e-Geos
The Telespazio-ASI industry expands in the Far East
e-GEOS has extended its presence in the Far East with the awarding of a tender in Indonesia and a contract renewal in Japan. In Indonesia, the industry won an international tender announced by the Ministry... more



AerospaceISS: NASA and Roscosmos work to send mixed crews into space
The never-ending story of relations between the United States and Russia
While in Russia the US astronauts are accused of sabotaging the Soyuz spacecraft (see AVIONEWS), Roscosmos and NASA are discussing to continue to transport the crews together on the International Space... more

AerospaceNASA: the IceSat-2 satellite will be sent to space tomorrow
It will study the average variations of polar ice sheets -VIDEO
Tomorrow from the American Air Force Base in Vandenberg the IceSat-2 satellite will be sent into orbit by the American space agency (NASA), which will have the task of studying the average variation of... more

AerospaceRussian accusations: "US astronauts have sabotaged the Soyuz"
"An absurdity", the response from Washington
After the director of the Russian space agency (Roscosmos) Dmitry Rogozin also declared that the hole on the Soyuz spacecraft anchored to the International Space Station (ISS) could have been done by human... more

AerospaceIridium Next sets standards in constellations
A complete and complex end-to-end telecommunications system
In the frame of the "World Satellite Business Week" in Paris, Jean Loïc Galle, CEO of Thales Alenia Space, (joint-venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%) and Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium, have presented... more

AerospaceRussia: the A-40 Albatross amphibious aircraft will return to production
The Russian navy would like to use it for the anti-submarine war
United Aircraft Corporation (OAK) will soon resume production of the world's largest amphibious aircraft, the A-40 Albatross, developed in the 1980s to perform the anti-submarine tasks previously performed... more

AerospaceSpace. Russian accusations: "The Soyuz has been sabotaged"
Is the loss of pressure from the ISS caused by a voluntary gesture?
Despite the fact that the director of the Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) Dmitry Rogozin at first spoke of a micro-meteorite which caused the damage suffered to the spacecraft Soyuz, today he said that... more

AerospaceSpace. ESA-JAXA: "Bepi Colombo" probe will be send soon for Mercury
Two orbital modules to study the planet closest to the Sun.
After obtaining the flight qualification on October 19 the "Bepi Colombo" spacecraft will be sent to the space with an Ariane 5 rocket carrier, which will depart from the Kourou spaceport in French Guiana.... more

AerospaceTAS will lead studies for two European Lop-G elements
The exploration of the Moon becomes true
Thales Alenia Space (TAS), joint-venture between Thales 67% and Leonardo 33%, announced today to have signed contracts with the European Space Agency (ESA) for the Phase A/B1 studies of two elements of... more

AerospaceRussia: "We will no longer carry NASA astronauts from 2019"
The goal is to become the space superpower
Following the incident occurred on board the International Space Station (ISS) where an impact with a very small space debris caused a 2 mm hole in the Soyuz spacecraft, provoking a loss of pressure inside... more

AerospaceISS: apprehension for a loss of internal pressure
To cause it a small 2 mm hole immediately sheltered by the astronauts
Yesterday in the International Space Station (ISS) there was a great apprehension since the pressure began to fall slowly due to a hole -singled out in the morning by the astronauts- about two millimeters... more