October 2025
What future for UK human spaceflight?
... orbital experience and boosting the UK’s visibility in HSF. The European Space Agency (ESA) signed a contract in January 2025 with Thales Alenia Space, Italy, to lead European aerospace companies in building the Argonaut lunar descent element of ESA...
August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... course, 35 Master’s students developed hypothetical scenarios for a future Moon village. The studio was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and experts from...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... of ocean areas, much of which is in the Arctic, monitoring and control is a challenge. Norway has been a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1985 and is a full member of the EU programmes Copernicus and Galileo. The national benefit...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
Proba-3 is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) precise formation flying space mission in which two satellites... Corona of the Sun) and is developed by a consortium of European institutes and industries. The unprecedented field of view makes it uniquely ...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
As NASA, the European Space Agency and the space industry look to return to the Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive ...
March 2021
Eyes on the prize
... China, Japan and elsewhere clean reliable energy sources will be in ever greater demand. Graphic produced by the European Space Agency to illustrate the concept of gathering solar energy in orbit and beaming the power to Earth. The opportunity for...
