Do you want to access to this and other private contents?
Log in if you are a subscriber or click here to request service

Columbus, ESA space laboratory, has been presented

Brema, Germany - It will be launched to ISS in 2007

Columbus module, the most important European contribution for the orbiting International Space Station (ISS), was presented yesterday at the EADS Space Transportation seat in Brema, Germany. During a 10-year development work, Columbus was pre-integrated in Turin’s Alenia Alcatel Space plants and then finally integrated in Brema, where it will leave from within May headed to NASA Kennedy Space Center i...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 140100
Rome, Italy, 05/03/2006 14:21
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

Similar

AerospaceSpace Norway orders THOR 8 satellite from Thales Alenia Space

With a launch mass of 4 metric tons; launch in 2027

Space Norway, Northern Europe’s leading satellite operator, and Thales Alenia Space (TAS), a joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), today announced they have signed a contract for the s... more

AerospaceTAS and Nibe sign a satellite supply contract

For Earth observation constellation project

Thales Alenia Space (TAS), the joint-venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), has signed a contract with NIBE Space (a subsidiary of NIBE Limited) concerning the supply of a high-resolution optical... more

AerospaceSpainSat NG-I satellite launched

On a Falcon 9 rocket

The first of the two Airbus-built new generation SpainSat satellites, SpainSat NG-I, has been successfully launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, in the US. Operated by Hisdesat for the Spanish... more