Focus: Europe

Arianespace successfully launched its Ariane 5 rocket on Feb. 5 at 6:01 pm (local time) from the Guiana Space Center, Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana. This was Arianespace’s first launch...

U.K.-based communications services hub Goonhilly Earth Station entered into an agreement with a fellow startup launch facility, Shetland Space Center (SSC), to jointly promote and deliver launch, monitoring, and tracking capabilities,...

Viasat‘s In Flight Connectivity (IFC) service will be offered on Italian airline Neos‘ fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft. According to the release, Neos selected Viasat for its popular satellite...

ArianeGroup finalized the Prometheus engine demonstration’s Definition Review on Feb 1., with the support of European Space Agency (ESA), France’s National Center for Space Studies (CNES), and the German Aerospace...

Goonhilly Earth Station has been making waves, quite literally, with its deep space antennas. The U.K.-based “gateway to space” has been around since the 1960s, but its new leadership team...

A new $1.3 million (1 million British pounds) MOD investment will be funding the development of a new generation of British deployable satellite antennas. The ‘wrapped rib’ antenna aims to be...

An increasing number of states are developing plans for setting-up spaceports, with suborbital flights and small satellites taking the center stage. In Europe, Portugal has been taking relevant steps, as...

The U.K. is the global hub for the satellite and space insurance industry. There are, however, significant issues related to Brexit which may threaten the U.K.’s current position, and which...

The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a one-year contract with ArianeGroup to study and prepare for a mission to go to the Moon with the aim of mining regolith. Regolith...

NanoAvionics opened a sales office in the United Kingdom, and appointed Tariq Sami as its U.K. Sales Director. Sami has worked in both the British and European aerospace industries, and aims...