March 2016
The Use of 3D Printing for Space Applications
..., Status and Way Forward. Proceedings of the Metallic Materials and Processes Industrial Challenges Conference, November, 25-27, Deauville (France), 2015.
March 2016
Rosetta – Starting from Scratch
... prime contractor selected was Dornier, a German aerospace company located on Lake Constance. Matra Marconi Space in Toulouse, France, built the avionics subsystem, our primary interface with the spacecraft. We spent the initial years of design...
March 2016
Exploration and cooperation at the heart of European space vision
...other areas.” ESA serves both its member states (Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland...
March 2016
Time for European visionary goals
... It would be exactly in line with the goals set by the United Nations’ Climate Change Conference held in Paris, France, at the end of 2015, an environmental summit which set clear targets and goals for public and private...
September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
n May 1950, the French minister of foreign affairs made a speech from the l’Horloge du Quai d’Orsay in Paris, in which he famously launched the European coal and steel community project. Born to a French father, who became a German national after ...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... Active Pixel Sensor startracker, and in 2013 Proba-V took on the global land monitoring task previously undertaken by France’s Spot satellites, while also performing the first detection of aircraft ADS-B signals from orbit and testing...
