14 February 2020
Astrocale and JAXA team up for the agency's first debris removal project
... of Debris Demonstration project (CRD2) consists of two mission phases to achieve one of the world’s first debris removal missions... and efficient debris removal services.” “The data obtained in Phase I of CRD2 is expected to reinforce the dangers of ...
10 August 2020
ULA & SpaceX win substantial US government launch contracts
... that also meet more stressing NSSL needs. The Phase 2 Procurement contracts are for launch service orders starting... working with ULA and SpaceX as we progress towards our first Phase 2 The Space and Missile Systems Center, located at Los Angeles ...
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...
