2019 A massive “thank you” to all the Candidates, Employers, Entrepreneurs, Event Managers, Advertisers and Journalists that enabled Careers In Space to have a year of phenomenal growth. We saw record after record smashed on a month-by-month basis. Our whole team looks forward to continuing to serve you to the very best of our ability […]

The Northern Territory is a step closer to being part of the trillion dollar international space industry with NASA and Equatorial Launch Australia (ELA) ready to launch their sounding rocket program in 2020 from the Arnhem Space Centre. ELA is developing a commercial spaceport in East Arnhem Land, with a sub-orbital rocket launch facility planned […]

If it wasn’t for Dick Koos it seems certain that the Apollo 11 moon landing would have been aborted just 10 minutes from completing the assignment given by President Kennedy eight years earlier. Dick Koos was a simulation supervisor, or in NASA’s short hand, a “SimSup”, pronounced “Sim Soup”. His job was to produce problems […]

Peter Spinks holds a master’s degree in research psychology and has published in international academic journals. Since 1980, he has broadcast and written for leading media organisations, including Radio Four and the World Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, The Guardian and The Observer newspapers and New Scientist magazine in London. Here is one of […]

For the space industry to grow and thrive, we need people who are well educated in its particular requirements. As of Academic year 2019-2020 (starting in September/October 2019), the IAE Graduate School of Management of the Université Nice Sophia Antipolis (Member of Université Côte D’Azur) http://unice.fr/iae/en/iae-nice will deliver two Diplomas, both delivered and fully recognized […]

Kourou, French Guiana – The Airbus-built T-16 telecommunications satellite has been successfully launched on an Ariane 5 rocket from Kourou, French Guiana. T-16 is based on Airbus’ highly reliable Eurostar E3000 geostationary platform and is the 50th Eurostar E3000 satellite launched. It will provide high power satellite capacity for high availability TV broadcast services, including […]

Madrid, Spain – Airbus built SEOSAT/Ingenio, the first Earth observation satellite for the European Space Agency (ESA) and Spanish government has left Madrid and is ready for final testing. The spacecraft will now start a 3 month environmental test campaign which includes the Thermal Balance and Vacuum test, followed by Mechanical Vibration, Acoustic and Electromagnetic […]