August 2018
Flying to the stars
... and PhD in aerospace engineering from the Technical University of Munich, conducting part of his research at ESA-ESTEC and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published over 30 articles in peer-reviewed international journals and...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... evolution of our own solar system. About the author Johannes Benkoff is a Planetary Physicist working at ESA-ESTEC in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. He received his PhD at the University of Münster, Germany, prior to working on planetary interiors...
February 2019
European system for global weather forecasting and climate change detection
... 1993. Previously he worked for Matra Marconi Space as Hispasat Ground Segment Manager (1990 to 1993) and ESA/ESTEC as system engineer for the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) from 1987 to June 1990. Acknowledgment This article...
April 2019
LISA Pathfinder – paving the way for future studies of the gravitational universe
... Andreas Rudolph was the Ground Segment Manager for LISA Pathfinder. He joined ESA in 1991 working first at ESTEC in the Netherlands and then (from 1993) at ESOC in Germany. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... - has been an influential participant in the subject of debris policy and research, and its Clean Space initiative at ESTEC has been a major contributor to space sustainability. ESA also funded several studies focused on debris removal as well...
September 2020
Space technology transfer - today and tomorrow
In an online article ‘The role of technology transfer post Covid-19’ published on the ROOM website in May 2020, MULTIPLY’s Natasha Allden posed a number of questions, including what if the 71 percent longtail of small and medium space businesses in ...