16 October 2020
BepiColombo’s first glimpse of Venus
...brake against the gravitational pull of the Sun in order to enter orbit around Mercury. BepiColombo, which comprises ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter and the Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), is scheduled...
November 2018
Pole star rising
...first signs of this have been participation not only in ESA basic programmes, but also in optional ones, which provide ...one already being taken by technology and the industry itself. ESA, acting on behalf of the European Commission, signed contracts ...
30 September 2016
Historic Rosetta mission ends
... entered the history books once again," says Johann-Dietrich Wörner, ESA's Director General. "Today we celebrate the success of a game-changing... the world." On this emotional day for both the ESA and the global space industry, as the world says good...
July 2014
Space technology transfer portals and the chance progress of innovation
...encounter in our everyday lives can trace at least some of their heritage back to developments motivated by space exploration. ESA, NASA and other space agencies run various initiatives designed to encourage the take-up of space technologies in other...
March 2021
Campuses, clusters and a leading force in UK space
...-art facilities and business support, as well as an ecosystem of specialist knowledge in engineering and astronomy, including access to the ESA BIC UK. In addition SMEs (small and medium-sized enterprises) can use the specially-designed space testing...
24 June 2016
Will Brexit Lead to Spexit?
...will happen with the future Galileo satellites. The deadline set by ESA for industry bids on the next Galileo series is July 19... US and Canada creating British divisions to get access to ESA and European Union space project funding. The British share ...
