Tag: ESA

Celestia UK has announced that it has won an €800,000 ESA NAVSIP (Navigation, Innovation and Support Programme) contract to develop an innovative PNT solution based on LEO satellite constellations for 5G networks and applications, that will boost the reliability...

Wireless laser communication systems developer Astrolight successfully performed a satellite-to-ground laser communication test using a portable OGS-1 optical ground station. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoYCWZJBfv8&ab_channel=Astrolight Astrolight, working with the European Space Agency (ESA), established the laser communication link using the OGS-1 optical ground station, located near ESA's...

The European Space Agency ESA, the French space agency CNES, MT Aerospace AG (a subsidiary of OHB SE) and a group of European industrial and academic partners joined forces to cut CO2 emissions associated with orbital launches. They intend...

Space Resources Week 2022 is a 3-day conference connecting thought leaders from the terrestrial resources sector, aerospace industry, financial institutions, research institutes and academia. It aims at understanding the technical and economic challenges facing in-situ resource utilization (ISRU) and elaborating...

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti's hard at work on her first ever spacewalk, conducted alongside cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. Not only that, but this spacewalk was also the first conducted by a European woman and the first conducted by a European...

Leveraging the world’s largest synthetic aperture radar constellation, ICEYE will provide ESA with active flood hazard data before, during and after large-scale flood events. ICEYE announced the start of a pilot activity with the European Space Agency (ESA) to support the Copernicus...

CompPair Technologies joins the ArianeGroup consortium to define the 2025-2050 technology and demonstrators roadmaps for the European Space Agency (ESA) reusable space vehicles. This work is part of the New European Space Transportation Solutions (NESTS) framework and specifically for...

MSG-1 (also called Meteosat-8) has broken all records for longevity, logging 19 years, 7 months and 12 days in orbit to date. This news confirms the robustness of Europe’s geostationary weather satellites. MSG-1 was launched back in August 2002, followed...

Enabling & Support 28/03/2022 1594 views 48 likes The poles of the Moon have emerged as enticing goals for future exploration, given their potential for harbouring water and other volatiles. So ESA and the European...

A standard 3D printer cannot produce anything bigger than the size limits of the printer itself. But this new IMPERIAL 3D printer, designed for use in space by a Europe-wide industrial consortium, can print high performance polymer parts...