January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
...In 2018, he became the Head of the Projects Office in the Technology, Engineering and Quality Directorate and the Proba-3 Project Manager for ESA. Victor Marco was an associate professor in the Aerospace Engineering Department, Polytechnic University...
22 August 2017
Total eclipse wows viewers in the US
... scientists understand this and other Sun-related mysteries. The pioneering space mission from ESA known as Proba-3, is comprised of two small metre-scale satellites that will line up to cast a precise shadow across space to thus...
September 2016
Preparing the future: the right technology at the right time
... - all smaller than a cubic metre in volume - is crammed with as many technology demonstration payloads as possible. Earth-observing Proba-1 in 2001 demonstrated the first hyperspectral imager and the first lithium-ion batteries in orbit, in 2009 the...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
... for ADS-B in the upper airspace. Screen of ADS-B system. Aircraft positions picked up by experimental ADS-B receiver on ESA’s Proba-V minisatellite, 1 May 2015. ADS-B over satellite – tracking aircraft from space. The FAA in the US is also looking...
October 2015
Taking AIM with ESA: proposing the first visit to a binary asteroid system
... mission implementation. Following past European technology-testing missions such as the Smart-1 lunar orbiter and the Proba series of Earth- and Sun-monitoring minisatellites, ESA believes that the best proof that new technologies...
September 2019
A new era in planetary defence missions
... has covered ESA missions including the Envisat Earth-observing mission, the Hylas comsat and the Proba-V minisatellite and reported from ESA’s microgravity-reproducing parabolic aircraft and the launch site in French Guiana...
