November 2017
Roving the red planet
...Crater locations explored by Curiosity) and the subsurface (as seen by Opportunity on the rim of Endeavour Crater). Later, conditions changed and early in the Hesperian period of Mars’ history (roughly 3.7 billion years ago) waters became more acidic...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
... space component. Copernicus is Europe’s answer to global needs, allowing us to manage the environment, to mitigate the effects of climate change and to ensure civil security. The Sentinel missions, the first of which was launched in 2014, are based...
August 2018
Earth observation game-changer
...uses for SAR expanded into research such as measuring changes in glaciers, coastal erosion, vegetation structures, identification... satellite. Human-scale detection What matters for human-scale change detection is to be able to answer questions such as...
February 2021
In-orbit servicing and insurance – a marriage of convenience?
... tracked from Earth. As a result of the possibility of in–orbit inspection determining the cause of loss, this situation may change substantially in future. For the same reason, any exposure assessment would be much easier, leading potentially to the...
April 2021
Making space part of the everyday European agenda
...I used as a trigger to look deeper into what we do and change the way we work in ESA. This opened the door for us ...fragility of our planet. It also helps to predict climate change under various parameters like temperature increase and the melting of ...
June 2022
Finnish start-up ReOrbit aims to revolutionise space industry
... with multiple players entering the field, there needs to be a ramp-up on the exponential pace of technological change - which means changing the way satellites are built to meet the boundless demands of future missions. We need to exponentially...
