November 2018
Pole star rising
...ESA certificates in space-qualified electronics assembly, it will become a unique facility of this kind in Central-Eastern Europe, and in Europe in general. The umbilical release mechanism (URM) for the ExoMars rover provides an electrical connection...
November 2018
Purpose, promise and power – video from space
... free data is already out there – particularly thanks to Europe’s new Sentinel satellites. Built and launched by the European ... or direct ground monitoring is not obtainable. Daily video Europe’s new Sentinel satellites are generating a mass of free...
October 2019
Time to overcome the expendable rocket mindset
...never become economical, and most big aircraft companies in Europe and the USA had substantial teams studying spaceplanes to... the US by the Cold War race to the Moon and in Europe by Concorde. Moreover, there was no powerful incentive to reduce launch...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... and Beagle2. Together with a number of talented subcontractors, they are developing a unique modular package that puts Europe at the cutting edge of lunar resource exploration. The PROSPECT package consists of two key subassemblies: the ProSEED...
