June 2015
European lab in the sky: OP-SAT and new potential for ESA spacecraft
... submit proposals for experiments. No idea, no matter how outsidethe- box, will be rejected a priori. Unique chance for Europe During the expected 12- to 24-month mission, we hope to provide experimental time to anyone who presents a well-thought-out...
June 2015
Beagle 2: discovering the lost Mars lander
...from the evidence now available, Christmas Day 2003 marks the UK & Europe’s first and successful landing on another body in our Solar System. ... people and companies both in the UK and around Europe and the world in building Beagle 2. Beagle 2 inspired...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...’. To achieve this, pragmatic, transparent and reliable cooperation among the main space actors in Europe is of the utmost importance.” Artist’s impression depicting the ExoMars 2016 entry, descent and landing demonstrator module, ...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... near-identical sensor that will eventually fly on Europe’s next-generation weather satellites from 2021. This ... in large part from motor vehicle exhausts, over north-west Europe. Instrument. In addition, TROPOMI will measure total atmospheric column ...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
... has been working on the project for 10 years, provides an insight into this ground-breaking mission. BepiColombo is Europe’s first mission to explore planet Mercury, the least explored terrestrial planet in our solar system. It is a joint project...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...than has ever been achieved before. In recent years Europe has made significant progress in the field of multi-... also worked for ESA on the development and operation of the Europe’s Galileo System and is now System Manager of Proba-3 for SENER...
