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August 26, 2026
Video: 00:00:31 The Meteosat Third Generation -Imager2 (MTG-I2) satellite, is ready for launch on board an Ariane 6 launcher from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. Lift off is scheduled for 27…
August 25, 2026
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The facility will be built in Vermilion Parish, on the Gulf of Mexico coast, and is expected to become the company's largest space operations center The post SpaceX to invest R$514 billion in…
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LATAM will expand its onboard Wi-Fi offering by installing multi-orbit satellite connectivity on more than 60 new Airbus and Embraer aircraft. The initiative involves an investment exceeding…
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Latam Airlines will invest more than US$25 million to install multi-orbit satellite connectivity on more than 60 Airbus and Embraer aircraft
How a kingdom caught between two empires turned their rivalry into an unlikely shield. The post Thailand is the only country in Southeast Asia never colonised by a European power — not because it…
The next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) is set to launch as part of flight VA270 aboard an Ariane 6 rocket from the European spaceport in French Guiana. It…
French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has begun the “EasyMotion-2” experiment aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The objective of the study is to scientifically evaluate the benefits of…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and France's Sophie Adenot will conduct a spacewalk today (Aug. 25) to replace a space-to-ground-antenna on the International Space Station. Here's how to watch live.
The six unions represented at Airbus attended this meeting, both the three that called the new strikes and the three not involved in these new mobilisations, who…
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August 24, 2026
A week after her first spacewalk, astronaut Sophie Adenot will return to space to finish the work she started last time. A true test for the French astronaut.
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This week will see five orbital launches from China, the United States, and French Guiana.… The post Launch Preview: Falcon Heavy to launch Roman telescope, Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites…
To replace the ground radio antenna removed during EVA-97, Sophie Adenot and Anil Menon will carry out another spacewalk tomorrow, Tuesday 25 August 2026. For the French…
The next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) is set for liftoff on flight VA270 on an Ariane 6, from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana. It will complete the first family of MTG…
The next Meteosat Third Generation Imager satellite (MTG-I2) is ready to launch aboard an Ariane 6 rocket (flight VA270) from the European Spaceport in French Guiana. This will…
Press Release N° 42–2026 Journalists are invited to a Q&A session with French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot at the headquarters of the European Space Agency (ESA) in…
Press release No. 42–2026. Journalists are invited to a Q&A session at ESA headquarters in Paris with astronaut Sophie Adenot.
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August 22, 2026
The French space agency CNES is looking for an industrial partner to develop and qualify a compact optical telescope for future satellite constellations. The agency says the design must be suitable…
August 21, 2026
Paris, France | August 2026– More than 6,500 Earth observation (EO) satellites are expected to launch by 2035, generating $155.9 billion in manufacturing revenues as governments expand sovereign…
August 20, 2026
The MicroCarb mission, jointly developed by the French space agency CNES and the UK Space Agency, aims to characterize greenhouse gas flows…
On 12 and 13 September 2026, the European Space Agency (ESA), CNES and the Cité des sciences et de l’industrie invite the public to «Off to…»
MicroCarb is a joint mission between the UK Space Agency and CNES to measure sources and sinks of carbon, to help better understand the drivers of climate change.
Airline Lufthansa has begun commercial operation of its new broadband internet on board short- and medium-haul aircraft. On August 19, 2026, an Airbus…
Europe’s newest eye on the health of Earth’s vegetation has taken another crucial step towards orbit – the European Space Agency’s FLEX satellite has been fuelled at Europe’s Spaceport in French…
August 19, 2026
A historic milestone collided with the mundane reality of spacewalking: six hours is never quite enough when old wiring fights back. The post Sophie Adenot became the first French woman to spacewalk…
Yesterday, 400 kilometers above Earth, Sophie Adenot had a date with history. And the French astronaut showed up. Although her spacewalk did not go entirely […]
Sophie Adenot became, on Tuesday 18 August, the first French woman to perform a spacewalk. For 6 h 23 min, the ESA astronaut worked alongside American…
ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot has become the first Frenchwoman to perform a spacewalk, venturing outside the International Space Station yesterday, 18 August, with NASA astronaut Anil Menon to repair…
European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Sophie Adenot completed her first spacewalk after spending six hours and 23 minutes outside the International Space Station (ISS), in a…
August 18, 2026
It was the 282nd EVA devoted to station assembly and maintenance, the fifth so far this year, the second for Menon and the first for Adenot, now the first French woman to walk in space. Total ISS…
NASA astronaut Anil Menon and first female French spacewalker Sophie Adenot removed a failed antenna but ran out of time to install its replacement at the International Space Station, Aug. 18, 2026.
