February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...monitoring; Earth observation; planetary protection; upstream standards; and future activities in space standardisation. ESA is an active member of the European Cooperation for Space Standardisation (ECSS). What is the aim of the project and its main...
03 June 2019
CEN and CENELEC to hold workshop on standards in space applications
... successful and efficient: CEN and CENELEC have a working agreement with ECSS (European Cooperation for Space Standardisation), an initiative by ESA (European Space Agency). As part of this agreement, through the Joint Technical Committee 5 (JTC...
May 2018
Challenging the boundaries of materials science
... by NASA, the American Society for Testing and Materials International (ASTM) and the European Cooperation for Space Standardisation (ECSS). The most frequently applied test is related to the outgassing under vacuum of non-metallic materials to avoid...