ATV-4 is launching 14th of June, not the 5th...
Quote from: Jester on 04/05/2013 10:59 amATV-4 is launching 14th of June, not the 5th...The info i have is that ATV-4 is planned for 5th and docking the 15th.
Galileo -FOC (2 sats) is still tracking September, not November.I'm pretty sure we get the range over O3b so I'd swap them around....
Quote from: Jester on 04/08/2013 08:49 amGalileo -FOC (2 sats) is still tracking September, not November.I'm pretty sure we get the range over O3b so I'd swap them around....Apparently a Russian working the Soyuz at Kourou (or somewhere near ) is the source: http://novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/forum/messages/forum14/topic9743/message1054725/#message1054725So only 3 Soyuz launches from there in 2013? (the November flight is noted as either Galileo-FOC or Gaia)
The Board of Directors of Arianespace today named Stéphane Israël Chairman and CEO of the company, effective Monday, April 22, 2013.
Jean-Yves Le Gall, who had headed Arianespace since 2001 and on April 3 was named President of French space agency CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales)
To be noted that Stéphane Israël is young, he has about the same age as Elon Musk. He has no technical background whatsoever. He is a historian and a senior civil servant in France and owes his new position to his political connections (with the new socialist administration).There is a technical word for thathttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantouflage
Unclear:second half 2019 NET 2020 - CoReH2O - Vega (TBD) - Kourou ZLVNET midyear 2020 - PREMIER - TBD
ESA’s Earth Observation Programme Board has selected ‘Biomass’ to become the seventh Earth Explorer mission.