September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... rover will deploy and operate a series of technological payloads. European Private Lunar Surface Mission: PTScientists, Germany, in partnership with Audi AG, propose a European privately-funded Moon surface mission. This Moon mission is a promising...
October 2017
Tracking air pollution and monitoring climate change
... commanding and monitoring the health of the satellite, with the mission operations controlled from ESOC, Darmstadt, Germany. A propulsion module provides propellant for orbit manoeuvres necessary throughout the mission lifetime as well as the safe...
February 2018
CubeSats changing the landscape for ‘app’ developers
...- 2017]. About the authors César Coelho, a PhD Candidate at Graz University of Technology, Austria, and hosted at ESOC, Germany. César received his Bachelor degree in Aerospace Engineering from Instituto Superior Técnico in 2012 and then a Master...
March 2018
Mapping the dark universe
...from the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC), in Darmstadt, Germany. Elementary observation sequence (dithers) of VIS and NISP. ... the Netherlands and then (from 1993) at ESOC in Germany. Since 2008 he has been responsible for the ground segment...
April 2018
Developing Mars
... in physics in applied optics from the Friedrich-Alexander Universitaet Erlangen, both Germany. He has led R&D, IT and information security projects, and works now in Germany as a freelancer. Martin joined the Space Elevator community in 2004 and was...
November 2018
BepiColombo – a mission to explore Mercury
...been carried out at ESA’s operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany, and personnel have practiced non-routine events to be...Netherlands. He received his PhD at the University of Münster, Germany, prior to working on planetary interiors and comets at the ...