Galileo, how you’ve grown
Today Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, delivering metre-level accuracy, and if you are a modern smartphone owner then you – like nearly four billion others around the world – are among its users. This week we are celebrating that almost exactly a decade ago, on 12 March 2013, Europe for the first time ever was able to determine a position on the ground using only its own independent navigation system, Galileo.
Japan's new H3 rocket fails again, forced to self-destruct
Japan's second attempt to launch its next-generation H3 rocket failed after liftoff on Tuesday, with the spacecraft forced to self-destruct after the command centre concluded the mission could not succeed.
The failure is a blow for Japan's space agency JAXA, which has billed the rocket as a flexible and cost-effective new flagship.
Its launch had already been delayed by several years, an Airbus wins contract from Angola for Earth observation satellite Angeo-1
As part of French President Emmanuel Macron's visit, Airbus Defence and Space has announced an agreement for Angeo-1, the first very high performance Angolan Earth observation satellite, to be manufactured by Airbus Defence and Space in France, which strengthens the collaboration between the two countries.
Jean-Marc Nasr, Head of Space Systems at Airbus said: "Space supports life on Earth. Guide morphing rovers across alien world in evolutionary computing contest
Thousands of years from now, the descendants of humankind gather via a galactic network of wormholes to begin the joint exploration of a curiously Mars-like world in deep space. A constellation of quantum communication satellites serve to oversee the progressive mapping of this terra incognita by AI rovers, which are capable of morphing their shape to traverse the most challenging terrain imaginable.
Japan’s H3 rocket launch fails after second stage malfunction
Japan’s brand-new H3 rocket was destroyed on its March 7 inaugural flight after the vehicle’s second-stage engine failed to ignite.
Japan launches H3 rocket, destroys it over 2nd-stage failure
Japan's space agency intentionally destroyed a new H3 rocket minutes after its launch Tuesday because the ignition failed for the second stage of the country's first new rocket series in more than two decades.
Coming three weeks after an aborted launch due to a separate glitch, the H3's failure was a setback for Japan's space program—and possibly for its missile detection program—and a disappointment for space fans who were rooting for Tuesday's retrial.
The H3 rocket with a white head blasted off and soared into the blue sky from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan as fans and local residents cheered. It followed its planned trajectory and the second stage separated as designed, but the ignition for it failed, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency said.
Space Ambition now interactive!
The interactive version of the Space Ambition book is now online, featuring all the content and images included in the hardcover edition.
Boeing’s ground system for U.S. satellite communications passes key test
Boeing completed a demonstration of a U.S.
Antenna verification framework now accepting drone measurements
An antenna verification framework used by geostationary satellite operators has started accepting ground station measurements from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Danish drone venture Quadsat said March 6.
JPL making progress on Psyche independent review recommendations
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is making progress addressing institutional problems that led to the delay of an asteroid mission, the lab’s director says.
