Space technology

The launch from Cape Canaveral was successful and Aalto-2 is on its way towards the International Space Station.

Legal battle in Hawaii is forcing project managers to look at the Canary Islands as new location for Thirty Metre Telescope

The design and construction of the satellite have utilised technology and experience from Aalto-1.

BAE Systems announces it is taking 20% new stake in space engine company Reaction Engines

If successful, the project will reduce the cost of putting satellites into low Earth orbit

Dutch ESA Business Incubation Centre start-up company Lens Research & Development has been awarded the title of Most Innovative Company in the Netherlands as the winner of the first Shell LiveWire Rising Star competition.

Sentinel-2A will orbit the planet beaming back images of food crops, forests, coastal waters and natural disasters

Sentinel-2A, part of the EU’s Copernicus programme, will provide unprecedented images of Earth