January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...the Projects Office in the Technology, Engineering and Quality Directorate and the Proba-3 Project Manager for ESA. Victor Marco was an associate professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department, Polytechnic University of Madrid. He worked for SENER...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
...About the author Josef Aschbacher was appointed Director General of the European Space Agency (ESA) in March 2021. He previously served as ESA’s Director of Earth Observation Programmes from 2016 to 2021. Born and raised in Austria, he studied at the...
June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... Standard’, a technical specification that described how ESA spacecraft communicate with Earth, using then-current ... flight The mission is now at the Phase B stage of ESA’s internal project management process and is fully funded at an estimated...
12 November 2020
ESA and NASA to partner on Mars sample return mission
... The Board acknowledged the longstanding cooperation between NASA and ESA in robotic and human space exploration as an asset ...engineering fields, and included interviews with experts across NASA and ESA, as well as in industry and academia. The Board ...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... benefit from already on-going developments in other ESA programmes and missions, thus providing a robust and...the aforementioned laser system, maintaining a high-bandwidth link to ESA’s Optical Ground Station in Tenerife. This fixed payload will...
13 March 2020
ESA and NASA select first science instruments to send to Gateway
... space and as an outpost for astronauts traveling onwards to the lunar surface. It is led by NASA. Following decisions at Space19+, ESA will build a Habitation module, communications systems and a refuelling module for the Gateway. The Canadian Space...
