December 2014
Space for Earth: How ESA wants to use lessons learned above on the ground
...terrestrial requirements and are set to continue to the next phase in their development. The success of this activity has led... fine-tuning and evaluation, especially during the critical early phases. Typically, it was observed that both on the system...
October 2015
Copernicus, ESA’s most ambitious Earth Observation programme
...ice thickness and wind speed. The SMOS mission exploitation phase has been prolonged until 2017. Earth is a complex... Earth observation, leaving the initial “pure science and technology” phase behind. With its suite of missions and programmes, ESA is...
March 2016
Gravitational waves provide new window on the universe
...it passes through, the wave will create a very small difference of phase that is proportional to the gravitational-wave strain, the strength of the... between the sum of the masses during the inspiral phase and the mass of the final black hole during ...
September 2017
Europe needs facility to handle extra-terrestrial space material
... and managing the samples as a valuable scientific resource for generations of researchers to study. The first step is the phase of Sample Early Characterisation (SEC), which aims at characterising the samples with non-destructive methods, to set the...
September 2017
Engaging the private sector in space exploration
... This initiative, fully supported by ESA Member States, is currently in its inception. Next year’s maturation of the pilot phases will have to demonstrate the willingness of all partners to share risks as well as benefits, before entering into a full...
November 2017
Reusable air-launch and the space access paradigm
... frequent launch is a primary requirement. Furthermore, as air-launch operations are likely to involve a significant cruise phase, such systems could be ‘evolved’, either to harvest oxygen in-flight [2] or to transfer it from a tanker aircraft while...
