February 2020
Preserving our space heritage
... be achieved when nations work together, and historians would surely condemn us if we allowed this powerful symbol of international collaboration to disappear. One of the landers on Mars might one day be the first to unequivocally discover evidence...
September 2020
Tackling space debris - a global priority
... so-called Space Situational Awareness (SSA) programme, an initiative by the European Space Agency (ESA) with international collaborators. Formally, SSA is defined as “the requisite foundational, current, and predictive knowledge and characterisation...
June 2022
Space logistics: achieving end-to-end mobility for space
...become available. Today, space logistics consists mainly of choosing between internal propulsion or external propulsion for delta-V positioning following a rideshare launch... through space exploration and international collaboration on this topic.
September 2023
Getting a grip on space sustainability and space debris
... areas that demonstrate the way sustainability is being tackled: space surveillance and tracking, standards of policy, international collaboration and technology? Yes, that sums it up well. We need space surveillance and tracking in order to identify...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
...not be as tangible as a physically existing habitat module. These aspects include governance, especially in case of international, collaborative missions, which requires legal considerations. When planning and designing a habitat, social and cultural...
12 July 2022
Star billing for first Webb picture
... (12 July), beginning at 16:30 CEST. Webb is the largest, most powerful telescope ever launched into space. Under an international collaboration agreement, ESA provided the telescope’s launch service, using the Ariane rocket. For more information see...
