... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
... 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...
...-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...
... 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...