17 October 2016
ESA's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbitor positions itself ready for its planned orbit insertion on Wednesday
... unit enters the martian atmosphere in two days time. Schiaparelli is the missions Entry, Descent and landing demonstrator Module (EDM) and it has already separated from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) yesterday at 16:42 CEST (14:42 GMT...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... greatly the maritime picture in remote areas, they also provided industrial growth in a new Norwegian segment and demonstrated to Norwegian authorities and politicians that small satellites were a sensible and cost-efficient means for Norway...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... has made significant progress in the field of multi-satellite missions. ESA’s Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) has demonstrated centimetre-scale accuracy when docking with the International Space Station (ISS), while Sweden’s Prisma mission...
October 2016
Unlocking the potential of annular ion engines
... electrodes. Extremely-high beam collimation was documented; a thrust-loss correction factor of 0.997, the highest ever demonstration for an ion thruster [11]. In 2014 a full-scale second-generation (‘GEN2’) AIE discharge chamber (65 cm outside dia...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
...-V of some 3.1 km/sec. LISA Pathfinder launch composite during ground testing. The SCM supported the two technology demonstrator experiments on-board: the European LISA technology package and the NASA- supplied Disturbance Reduction System (DRS...
November 2016
Hi-tech greenhouse to test plant cultivation technologies in Antarctica
... Mobile Test Facility (MTF), will be built in order to provide realistic mass flow relationships for the ISPR demonstrator and FEG. In addition to technology development and validation, food safety and plant handling procedures will be developed...
