Tag: ESA
This is a version of the ESA logo like no other: seen through a microscope it measures just over 17 thousandths of a millimetre across, about half the diameter of the average human skin cell.
The logo was carved out...
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23/03/2023167 views 4 likes
ESA and CNES invite space and non-space companies from all European Member, Associate and Cooperating States to support the digital modernisation of several activities at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana.
Europe’s Spaceport, also known as the Guiana...
Leaders of European space organisations gathered at ESA’s technical heart – the European Space Technology and Research Centre ESTEC in Noordwijk, the Netherlands – on 15-17 March as part of a trilaterial teambuilding seminar between the three entities.ESA Director...
ESA’s Young Professionals Satellite, YPSat, seen undergoing its initial thermal vacuum test in ESA’s Mechanical Systems Laboratory.
Sustained exposure to high-quality vacuum and temperature extremes mimic the conditions YPSat will experience in Earth orbit
YPSat is a project run in its entirety...
Applications10/03/20231216 views 46 likes
Europe’s Galileo is the world’s most precise satellite navigation system, providing metre-level accuracy and very precise timing to its four billion users. An essential ingredient to ensure this stays the case are the atomic clocks aboard each...
Applications08/03/2023565 views 20 likes
Would you like to know the future of satellite navigation? Try ESA’s Navigation Laboratory. This is a site where navigation engineers test prototypes of tomorrow's user receivers, using simulated versions of the navigation signals planned for the coming decade, such...
Enabling & Support07/03/2023248 views 17 likes
Thousands of years from now, the descendants of humankind gather via a galactic network of wormholes to begin the joint exploration of a curiously Mars-like world in deep space. A constellation of quantum communication...
Internal research fellow Johanna Wessing performing X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of the topmost skin of a candidate material for space.
This powerful technique enables the analysis of surface structures and composition to a depth of just a few nanometres – a...
How does ESA tell if candidate components for future missions have the right stuff for space? First they undergo rigorous ‘environmental testing’ – such as sustained exposure to vacuum, temperature extremes or vibration. Then the resulting condition of a...
Carbon and Glass fiber reinforced composite Windform RS and Windform LX 3.0 from CRP Technology, passed ESA standard screening outgassing tests: they are officially approved for the construction of applications to launch into Space.
Franco Cevolini, CEO and Technical Director...
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