Tag: ESA
ESA’s Juice mission to Jupiter has successfully endured a month of space-like conditions inside the Large Space Simulator, the largest vacuum chamber in Europe.
At 10 m wide and 15 m high, the Large Space Simulator (LSS) is big enough...
Future rockets could fly with tanks made of lightweight carbon fibre reinforced plastic thanks to ground-breaking research carried out within ESA’s Future Launchers Preparatory Programme.
Building on earlier studies, MT Aerospace in Germany has demonstrated a novel design of a...
The European Robotic Arm (ERA) is on its way to the International Space Station after being launched on a Proton rocket from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, in Kazakhstan, at 16:58 CEST today.
The 11-m-long robot is travelling folded and attached to...
Vega operates from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana to launch light satellites to one or multiple orbits in a single launch. This contract takes Vega a step further and marks the start of a new phase in preparation of...
An ESA project has developed a satellite antenna the size of a small picture frame, intended for miniature CubeSats. Built by Polish company WiRan the antenna found its first customer as soon as it was finalised, and is already...
The explosive growth in space activity in recent years is observed through a new lens in the pages of a major study of global and European space-related patents. At the same time as membership of the global space club...
The ESA Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) team has been working very hard to prepare the spacecraft for the first test in the one-year long environmental test campaign. This is the so-called Thermal Balance Thermal Vacuum (TBTV) test.
Juice is...
cosine is currently working on a significant expansion of its cleanroom facilities in a second building right next to its current location. This extension is required for the development of the advanced X-ray optics for the future X-ray telescope...
Intuitive Machines (IM) has entered a long-term agreement with Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd to support every stage of IM’s missions to the Moon, from launch and early operations, through transit, and including lunar operations. IM will use Goonhilly’s services...
The first planetary defense mission has begun! 11.24.2021: NASA’s first planetary defence mission (DART), started punctually at 7.21 a.m. Italian time from the Vandenberg base in California, carrying the LICIACube satellite built by Argotec, in collaboration with the...
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