February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
...)”, Ccsds.org, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.ccsds.org. [Accessed: 15- Sep- 2017]. 1 “OPS-SAT”, European Space Agency, 2017. [Online]. Available: http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Operations/OPS-SAT. [Accessed: 15- Sep- 2017]. 1 C. Coelho...
January 2019
Materials make the space mission
.... About the author Dr Tommaso Ghidini is the Head of the Structures, Mechanisms and Materials Division at the European Space Agency. With its world class laboratories and computational centres, the Division guarantees the structural integrity of the...
July 2021
Collaboration and competition in lunar exploration
... the historical, Cold War opponents, the United States and Russia; European countries, primarily through the European Space Agency (ESA); China, Japan, Canada and India. Emerging space programmes, such as those developed by the UAE and South Korea...
June 2017
European space business incubators and accelerators
... out accelerators and incubators serving the space industry across Europe and the UK. The bedrock of space industry activity in this area is a network of incubators managed by the European Space Agency (ESA) operating across Eu 19 countries, with the...
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...
January 2023
Clearing space junk from orbit
... features such as visual markers and docking interfaces to facilitate navigation and capture In Europe, the European Space Agency (ESA) and the UK Space Agency (UKSA) have taken the lead in funding pioneering missions that put the different pieces...
