July 2020
Inspiring the next generation into STEM
... 19 percent. Our data also show that engineering aspirations are profoundly gendered.” In a recent paper, Dr Julie Moote, Research Associate on the ASPIRES 3 project wrote: “a mere 11 percent of the UK engineering workforce are women, far behind the...
December 2014
India joins the major league with the Mars Orbiter Mission
... complex at Bengaluru’s high-security Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) Telemetry, Tracking and Command ... MAVEN missions. This will be mainly in the area of atmospheric research relating to Mars. The launch of PSLV-C25 from Satish Dhawan...
14 October 2016
Asgardia welcomes over 100,000 citizen applications in 48 hours and announces new million target
... Ashurbeyli, one of the Russian Federation's most distinguished scientists and founder of the Aerospace International Research Center (AIRC) in Vienna. In a separate event in Paris on 11 October 2016, he became chairman of UNESCO’s ‘Science of Space...
11 April 2017
ESA to supply cameras for Russian lunar mission
... have been reached, that the European Space Agency will take part in lunar research," said director general of the NPO Lavochkin research and industrial association, Sergey Lemeshevsky. "It is quite possible that ESA will take part...
18 October 2017
Europe’s first all-electric telecom satellite breaks record
... on 2 June. ESA have been involved in a number of projects concerning the satellite through its Advanced Research in Telecommunications Systems (ARTES) programme. ARTES offers varying degrees of support to projects with different levels of commercial...
02 February 2018
How a year in space affects your body
... for the study into metabolomic and genomic markers of atherosclerosis (the hardening and thickening of the arteries). Research showed elevated inflammation biomarkers and a thickening of the carotid artery wall in Scott during and immediately after...
