Companies across Europe are teaming up to tackle different aspects of ESA’s proposed Asteroid Impact Mission. Its detailed definition work has begun, ahead of a go/nogo decision next month. The Astero...
What is it really like to live in space? And what happens to the body in microgravity? Now, thanks to a new training course being offered by ESA’s Education and Space Medicine Offices, medical and bio...
ESA’s first technology CubeSat has burned up in the atmosphere after a year in orbit. Following six months of demonstrating new technologies, the tiny satellite’s working life was extended in order to...
ESA’s #matthiasmaurer with #esa astronauts #lucaparmitano and #pedroduque on a field trip for the Pangaea planetary geology course.On field trips in the Mars-like landscape of #lanzarote, one of the S...
A surface coating originally developed for medical implants is set to safeguard the next generation of European telecom satellites.Irish company ENBIO initially tailored its CoBlast process to produce...
Two weeks of intense research in microgravity have just concluded for two enthusiastic teams of university students as part of the Drop Your Thesis! 2016 programme launch campaign. STAR team, from Uni...
Satellite engineers have been puzzling over why GPS navigation systems on low-orbiting satellites like ESA’s Swarm sometimes black out when they fly over the equator between Africa and South America. ...
The Copernicus Sentinel-1 twin radar satellites combined with cloud computing are monitoring Europe’s earthquake zones by searching for ground shifts as small as a millimetre. Radar was developed in t...
ESA astronaut #thomaspesquet, NASA astronaut #peggywhitson and Roscosmos commander #olegnovitsky this week passed their final exams on the Soyuz spacecraft that will fly them to the International Spac...
When it comes to operating a spacecraft, there is just one simple rule: No spacecraft, no job! This is one of the first things that students were taught at the #esa Academy’s Training and Learning Cen...
A space-age system for detecting drones took home the grand prize in this year’s European Satellite Navigation Competition, while ESA’s prize went to a smart satnav bicycle bell.Drones are one of the ...
While ESA’s water mission was built to advance our understanding of Earth, it continues to show how well it’s suited to delivering information for numerous applications that improve everyday life. Tak...
The maiden commercial flight of the new Bombardier CS100 airliner this summer made use of the EGNOS satnav augmentation system for landing at Europe’s largest mainland airport.Acquired by Swiss Intern...
14 October 2016Next week, ESA’s ExoMars has just a single chance to get captured by Mars’ gravity. The spacecraft and the mission controllers who will make it so are ready for arrival.The ExoMars Trac...
Press release available only in original language. BEXUS 22 and 23 successfully launched12-10-2016 10:35 AM CESTLast week forty-five students participating in the Rocket and Balloon Experiments f...
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