EUMETSAT + ISRO Are In Cooperative Cahoots
A EUMETSAT delegation led by the Director General of the organization, Dr. Lars Prahm, met with the Chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), Mr. G. Madhavan Nair.
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Europeans Plan To Get Going With GMES
The latest meeting of the European Space Council, which was attended by the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, recognized the importance space makes to innovation and competitiveness in the context of the European Plan for Innovation and the European Economic Recovery Plan.
Read MoreBBC: Russia ‘to save its ISS modules’
Russia is making plans to detach and fly away its parts of the International Space Station when the time comes to de-orbit the rest of the outpost.
Read MoreReport of Joint NASA ESA Mission: UK to bid for Mars sample centre
Rocks from Mars could be brought to the UK within the next 20 years, if a bid to host a study facility is successful.
Read MoreA Meeting Of Minds: EC + EUMETSAT
Heinz Zourek, Director-General of the Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry in the European Commission, met the EUMETSAT Director-General, Dr. Lars Prahm, on March 24th at the headquarters of the European Meteorological Satellite Organisation in Darmstadt, Germany, Mr. Zourek’s first visit to EUMETSAT.
Read MoreESA + China Agree To Bio Sample Space Transportation
The Xinhua News Agency is reporting China has agreed to carry a bio sample for the European Space Agency on the country's Shenzhou-8 spacecraft, this according to Zhang Jianqi, deputy chief commander of the manned space project.
Read MoreDisarmament Conference Offers Outer Space Use Code
The European Union on Thursday, February 12, presented a proposal for a voluntary international code on the use of outer space to the Conference on Disarmament, just days after a Russian and U.S. satellite collided.
Read MoreNew Mexico + Sweden Now Have Space In Common
Officials from the New Mexico Spaceport Authority (NMSA) have entered into a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Spaceport Sweden to align with Spaceport America as ‘Sister Spaceports’.
Read MoreESA/Commission Concur on Component Programme
Today in Brussels, the amendment to the EC-ESA GMES agreement was signed by Mr Jean-Jacques Dordain, the ESA Director General, and Mr. Heinz Zourek, Director General of the European Commission’s Directorate General for Enterprise and Industry.
Read MoreVietnam and France Ready For Another Sat
Vietnam’s first satellite, VINASAT-1, was launched last April and all was successful. Now their Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung announced that France would be the provider of technology and official development assistance (ODA) for the natural resources, environment and disaster monitoring of small satellite (VNREADSat-1), Vietnam’s second satellite after Vinasat-1.
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