10 February 2020
ESA's Solar Orbiter probe blasts off to face the Sun
... the potential to disrupt everyday life should we be in the firing line of a powerful solar storm,” says Günther Hasinger, ESA Director of Science. "Solar Orbiter is going to do amazing things. Combined with the other recently launched NASA missions...
13 July 2020
ESA calls for 5G/space proposals with UKSA
...last week will seek out proposals from businesses for how ESA, the UK Space Agency and DCMS can use space...Proposals follows the Memorandum of Intent signed in December 2019 by ESA and DCMS, designed to support the emergence of commercially viable ...
31 March 2021
Apply now to become an ESA astronaut
...As well as recruiting new members to our astronaut corps, ESA has also issued a vacancy notice for the ‘Parastronaut’ ... 2021 and all applications must be submitted via the ESA Careers websitewithin these eight weeks. Following this deadline, ...
21 June 2017
LISA gets green light from ESA
...accuracy," says Paul McNamara, LISA Pathfinder Project Scientist at ESA. "The system was built so well that the difference... that was hypothesised by Albert Einstein a century ago. ESA also announced in the same meeting that its PLAnetary Transits...
07 March 2018
World's first firing for ESA's air-breathing electric thruster
...atmosphere. The thruster builds on the work already undertaken by ESA for their GOCE gravity-mapper satellite. GOCE also utilised an.... Hoping to overcome this limitation for future thrusters, ESA’s design team set about finding a way to continually...
23 March 2018
ESA selects ARIEL to look closely at exoplanets
... ARIEL will address one of the key themes of ESA’s Cosmic Vision; what are the conditions for planet formation...developed by a consortium of more than 60 institutes from 15 ESA member state countries, with UK institutions providing the leadership and ...
