July 2019
Stepping into space with STEAM
... there are many other lesser known projects like the UAE’s Mars 2117 project, and the European Space Agency’s Moon village idea. There are new business opportunities, from Luxembourg’s efforts on asteroid mining to Japanese start...
January 2023
LUNAR OASIS – architectural visions for an integrated lunar habitat
... and habitation design, as well as habitability and space psychology, was provided by an extended team of experts from space architecture and engineering, space companies and the European Space Agency. The goal was to experience how designing for...
January 2020
Collaborating to harness space innovation in healthcare
.... In many parts of the world, technology that was originally intended for use in space is now prevalent in other industries. For example, the European Space Agency (ESA) developed suits with embedded biomedical sensors to study how the human body...
February 2021
Space archaeology - preserving our orbital heritage
... artificial items left in orbit as a result of human involvement that no longer serve a ‘useful’ purpose. The European Space Agency (ESA) stated in February 2020 that, according to statistical modelling, there were an estimated 34,000 debris objects...
16 February 2016
Sentinel-3A poised for liftoff later today
... is the most ambitious Earth Observation programme to date and is headed by the European Commission (EC) in partnership with the European Space Agency. It will provide accurate, timely and easily accessible information to improve the management...
25 September 2015
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko’s Imhotep region: conditions change rapidly on comet’s surface
... on a comet would constitute a pretty wild ride, didn’t we? Well, we didn’t as much “know” as speculate, before the European Space Agency’s historic Rosetta mission and comet landing, that is. Now we have facts to back this up. As ESA’s Rosetta has...
