December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
... assessment and offshore operations; GEM, a greenhouse gas (GHG) mission based on a SWIR spectro-imager to measure emissions of CO2 and CH4 for GHG emission inventory and leak detection. In the second study, a collaboration formed by CGI...
December 2014
Motion capture
... world plan to store captured carbon underground in the future – InSAR can be used to monitor whether the captured CO2 stays where it was injected. We can also potentially use InSAR to monitor the stability of buildings or other critical...
March 2015
ESA’s Clean Space Initiative and the role of the LCA tool
... the design optimisation and possible reduction of life-cycle steps, enables a marked decrease in energy consumption and CO2 footprint. The potential of this technology is impressively demonstrated by the emergence and common availability of consumer...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... vegetation; and CarbonSat2—a proposed 3 to 5 year mission—that will measure global atmospheric amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4 ) with high spatial resolution and coverage1, which can be used to improve existing atmospheric...
February 2016
Is Jupiter Really Our Protective Shield?
... and three times the mass of Mars [3]. Had that impact not occurred, and removed much of Earth’s CO2-rich atmosphere in the process, our planet would likely be more like Venus with surface temperatures unable...
March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
...raw materials combined with process speed optimisation, enables the AM route to decrease energy consumption and reduce CO2 footprint. As recycling of removed metal is not needed, there is no downgrading of metal quality induced by recycling (for high...
