January 2022
International cooperation - the key to survival on Earth and in space
...many space programmes, the most important being Copernicus and Galileo, which are implemented by the European Space Agency. ... space. Think about all the transportation providers that use Galileo navigation signals to find their way around. Think about...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
...home’ – the Earth-Moon system, as seen in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft. As we venture farther from Earth on our journey to Mars,...indeed. I have a picture of Earth taken in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter. From a distance of 4 ...
February 2022
Revolution and responsibility: the challenges of space
... extreme point of human exploration I gladly join the heirs of Galileo, amateurs and professionals, who today emit a cry of anger and... had died fifty years earlier, and the discoveries of Galileo Galilei. They had broken the beautiful order of the ...
25 July 2018
Radiation on Europa dictates where search for life begins
..., who have calculated the global bombardment pattern of energetic electrons hitting Europa’s surface using data from Galileo's flybys of Europa two decades ago and electron measurements from NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft. "If we want to understand what...
July 2014
Space 1.0 to Space 3.0: from Gagarin to market growth
... with the production of the modules for the loads for the satellites of the European navigation system Galileo. But this doesn’t solve all the problems of Space 1.0, because the main customer remains the state...
July 2014
A revitalised space sector reduces costs and makes space data more accessible
... expensive to develop and launch the infrastructure. For this reason, global satellite navigation constellations like Europe’s Galileo or the next generation GPS constellation in the US are being built with public funds, with no direct connection...