April 2018
Climate monitoring and the need for open access to global environmental satellite data
... available as of 1998, and gradually increased the amount of operational data that was shared freely, as well. The European Space Agency (ESA) made access to all of its Earth observing satellite data free as of 2012. A year later, the Japan...
April 2019
Cleaning up space
... Angels, between 2009 and 2018 there was over US$15 billion of equity investment in space, US$6.5 billion of which was in satellite development European Space Agency - has been an influential participant in the subject of debris policy and research...
November 2019
PROSPECTing for lunar polar volatiles
... Lunar Lander Team in the Development Projects Group of the Human Spaceflight and Robotic Exploration Directorate, European Space Agency. He is leading the development of the PROSPECT instrumentation and sensors, including the preparation of PROSPECT...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... to Baikonur for launch in 2021. One successful strategy was to try to spread costs by involving European countries and the European Space Agency (ESA). Russia launched Europe’s INTEGRAL observatory in exchange for observing time; began the ExoMars...
January 2023
Portugal’s sustainable space strategy
... less 22 years ago, in December 1999, when we became a member of the European Space Agency (ESA). At that time, various government ministries were responsible for our space activities but not necessarily in a strategic way, so in 2018 the government...
April 2024
Agencia Espacial Española – Spain’s future assurance
..., so it will be an opportunity to do additional things, as well as running all the existing projects with the European Space Agency (ESA), and at bilateral and national levels. It’s a complex challenge,” he admitted. Spain is a founding member...
