February 2018
European centre shifts emphasis to deep space missions
...author Victor Demaria-Pesce MD, PhD is a Senior Scientific Adviser to the Head of the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) of the European Space Agency (ESA). He is a Director of Research of Inserm (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research...
May 2017
Could Brexit blow a hole in UK’s space ambitions?
... which might offer some comfort to those who are participants in organisations outside the European Union (EU), including the European Space Agency (ESA). However, the distinction between the EU and intergovernmental organisations such as ESA is not...
February 2018
Our space future lies in innovation
... to promote the cause of astronautics in his roles as President of the French national space agency (CNES), Chair of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and President of the International Astronautical Federation (IAF). Earlier in his...
February 2022
A manifesto for Europe in space
... the solutions are in our hands. 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...
August 2016
Polish Space Agency pursues task of developing country’s space expertise
...in practice, contracts from the European space programme funded by the EU are only awarded to companies and scientists from ESA members, which Poland helps to fund as an EU member state either way. The agency is executive in nature in accordance with...
September 2017
Measuring space debris risk
... to realise that debris strikes, such as the one that punched a 40 cm diameter hole in the solar array of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Sentinel-1A spacecraft, are much more common than originally thought, and are likely to increase. At the...
