spacetoday.net: space news from around the webin association with SpaceNews


ESA cuts cooperation with Russia on lunar missions
Posted: Sat, Apr 16, 2022, 9:46 AM ET (1346 GMT)
ESA said Wednesday it was further cutting links with Russia by ending cooperation on a series of lunar missions. ESA said it would no longer participate on the Luna-25, 26 and 27 missions Roscosmos has been developing, cooperation that featured flying a navigation camera on the Luna-25 lander and drill instrument on Luna-27. ESA said it will instead fly the drill on a NASA commercial lunar lander mission and had also arranged to fly an instrument on a lunar rover mission being jointly developed by India and Japan. ESA also announced it was supporting three new programs, including a lunar communications and navigation satellite system, that it will seek funding for at this fall's ministerial meeting.
<<previous article   next article>>
news in brief
SpaceX launches Starlink satellites
Posted: Sat, Apr 5 1:28 PM ET (1728 GMT)

SpinLaunch announces plans for satellite constellation
Posted: Sat, Apr 5 1:25 PM ET (1725 GMT)

First operational Kuiper satellites scheduled for launch
Posted: Sat, Apr 5 1:21 PM ET (1721 GMT)

news links
Tuesday, April 8
DIU Taps Firefly For Space Maneuvering Demonstration
Aviation Week — 5:27 am ET (0927 GMT)
Can Oneweb capitalise on tensions over Elon Musk and Starlink?
The Times of London — 5:26 am ET (0926 GMT)


about spacetoday.net   ·   info@spacetoday.net   ·   mailing list