GMV Completes Testing of its Multi-Use Moon Rover Concept
Spanish company GMV has completed the final test campaign of its European Moon Rover System concept.
The European Moon Rover System (EMRS) initiative is part...
HyImpulse Awarded £5M in UKSA Funding for SR75 Launch
The UK Space Agency has awarded £5 million (5.94 million) in new funding to HyImpulse to launch its suborbital SR75 rocket from SaxaVord in...
Gaia Prevails Despite a No-Good-Dirty-Rotten Year
The European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft continues to collect data despite getting hit by a one-in-a-million meteoroid strike and an electronics-crippling solar storm.
Gaia...
ESA Explores Crewed Mission Capabilities for Ariane 6 Rocket
The European Space Agency has awarded Arianespace a contract to explore potential options for enabling crewed missions to be launched aboard the Ariane 6...
ArianeGroup CEO: Reusable Ariane 6 “Not Economically Interesting”
ArianeGroup CEO Martin Sion said on French public radio that unlike SpaceX with its Falcon 9 rocket, a reusable Ariane 6 was "not economically...
RFA Completes Full-Mission Hot Fire Test of Redshift Upper Stage
German rocket builder Rocket Factory Augsburg has completed a full-mission hot fire test of its Redshift upper stage. The stage will now be sent...
ESA Targets 2031 for First Argonaut Lunar Lander Mission
In a call for Phase A/B1 development of its Argonaut lunar lander, the European Space Agency revealed that it is targeting 2031 for the...
HyPrSpace Fires Up Terminator Stage Demonstrator
French rocket builder HyPrSpace has completed the first successful hot fire test of its Terminator stage demonstrator.
HyPrSpace is developing a small rocket called the...
ESA Announces Ramses Mission to Study Asteroid’s Close Flyby of Earth
The European Space Agency (ESA) has announced the commencement of preparatory work on Ramses, the agency's planetary defence mission.
The Rapid Apophis Mission for Space...
Themis Reusable Booster Demonstrator Hop Tests Delayed Once Again
The initial hop tests of the ArianeGroup-developed, ESA-funded Themis reusable booster demonstrator have slipped once again. The first is now expected no earlier than...