September 2016
Co-operating in space transcends national identity
... the birth of a common responsibility towards each other. And the future of Europe, the Europe of Copernicus and Galileo, will only happen if we take this responsibility seriously. Even if we have to give in, at least partially, to the dual character...
November 2017
Managing air and space traffic from orbit
...European Union (EU) is developing its own GNSS called Galileo. India has also developed a seven-satellite regional ...NAVIC). Illustration showing two European in-orbit validation Galileo navigation satellites separating from their Fregat upper ...
June 2018
Archaeologist of the future
... raised by ispace in a series-A funding round for its fledgling lunar transportation business. Kepler wrote, in an open letter to Galileo: “We shall prepare, for the brave sky-travellers, maps of the celestial bodies – I shall do it for the moon...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
... Department, Polytechnic University of Madrid. He worked for SENER from 2003 before relocating to Airbus D&S Ottobrunn to work in the Galileo IOV Space Segment. In 2008 he was Project Manager of the GNC Subsystem of the ESA’s IXV re-entry vehicle...
August 2019
Reinventing the space museum
...the beauty and mystery of the cosmos throughout history: from Galileo to Warhol, from Van Gogh’s Starry Night to Hubble... with paintings, drawings and artefacts of Kepler, Brahe, Galileo and Newton, and another filled with Islamic astronomy artefacts,...
February 2020
Europe’s role in space standardisation
...The dream of returning to the Moon, going to Mars, mining celestial bodies, is alive. So, my advice is: be a part of it! With Europe’s Galileo satellite navigation system, highly accurate navigation data is being made available for the first time via...
