European Space Agency

By Irene Klotz
The defense prime sees new business opportunities for NASA’s deep-space capsule.
Space Exploration

By Irene Klotz
Aboard the International Space Station (ISS), crews already operate as if they live and work aboard two distinct stations.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency has signed an accord with Thales Alenia Space to advances its effort to deploy a European quantum key distribution government service.
Satellites

By Irene Klotz
The Exploration Co., a European startup developing cargo, and eventually crewed, spacecraft for LEO, plans a 2028 flight test to the ISS.
Operations & Safety

By Robert Wall
ESA is expanding its efforts to foster reusability in its launch systems, signing an agreement with Avio to work toward an upper stage that could be reused.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
Isar Aerospace is starting to build its backlog for launches ahead of the inaugural flight of is Spectrum rocket planned before year end.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
As demand for satellites and accompanying launches continues to grow, the supply chain in the space industry is having a hard time keeping up.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois
MaiaSpace is on track for a first flight of its mini-launcher late in 2026, a first step toward creating a family of reusable rockets, its CEO says.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Thierry Dubois
Latitude’s Zephyr microlauncher will fly at the end of next year, a one-year delay from its earlier schedule, commercial director Adeline Pitrois said Sept. 17.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
The ESA is poised to ask member states to back the European sovereign satellite communications IRIS² program with €600 million in the next funding cycle.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois
Arianespace is speaking with other players, essentially startups, in the launch service industry to create a broader offering, the company's CEO says.
Commercial Space

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency is reaching out to industry to formulate plans for spacecraft that would be survivable even in case of hypervelocity impact.
Operations & Safety

By Graham Warwick
Our roundup of the main aerospace and defense stories making the news this week.
Aircraft & Propulsion

By Robert Wall
ESA awarded two launches to Isar Aerospace, giving a boost to the German rocket startup, as it also unveiled an agreement with Avio for three Vega-C missions.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion

By Mark Carreau
Magnetic forces and electrolysis could be employed in space to generate oxygen for astronauts on deep space missions, researchers say.
Space Exploration

By Robert Wall
The Ariane 62 rocket placed the Metop-SG-A1 satellite into Sun-Synchronous Orbit at an altitude of around 800 km (500 mi) about 64 min after liftoff.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
German satellite maker OHB expects to reach a record of around €2.8 billion ($3.3 billion) in order bookings for next year.
Satellites

By Mark Carreau
NASA’s Tracer twin-satellite mission launched successfully with a handful of other small spacecraft payloads on July 23.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois
Dassault Aviation is pushing for its proposed Vortex reusable spaceplane to become a European Space Agency program.
Space Exploration

By Thierry Dubois
ESA engineers are using a system testbed to prepare algorithms on the second generation of Galileo timing, positioning and navigation satellites.
Satellites

By Garrett Reim
The EU is pouring billions into sovereign satellite constellations.
Satellites

By Thierry Dubois
ESA is finalizing the test phase of the Solar Wind Magnetosphere Ionosphere Link Explorer satellite, a joint mission with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency says it has made the first optical communications connection between a ground station and NASA’s Psyche mission.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
Europe’s meteorological agency Eumetsat wants to go ahead with the EPS-Sterna program that aims to grow a system of 20 weather-monitoring satellites.
Satellites

By Robert Wall
The European Space Agency has named five companies as participants in its European Launcher Challenge.
Launch Vehicles & Propulsion