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...
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...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
Sentinel-5P (S5P) is part of the Copernicus global monitoring programme, a joint venture between the European Commission (EC) and the European Space Agency (ESA). The ‘P’ in the spacecraft’s name stands for Precursor and references the fact that 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...
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...
