Tag: ESA
ESA's CubeSat Systems Unit oversees the design, building and flight of miniature CubeSats used to provide early in-orbit demonstration opportunities for European technologies - because the best place to test novel space systems is actually in space. Assembled...
The concept of gathering some of the unlimited sunlight available in space, then transmitting it down to users, was first developed to serve the clean energy needs of planet Earth. But Space-Based Solar Power can also work for the...
Enabling & Support 14/07/2023 2040 views 59 likes
Isn’t it strange that when satellites run out of fuel or a single component breaks down, we just discard them? ESA and European industry have joined forces...
Argotech is a Czech R&D company supported by ESA Technology Broker Czech Republic and providing their customers expertise, engineering services, customised product design and process development in the field of optics, electronics and photonics.
One segment of their expertise refers...
Danish Graphene is a developer and manufacturer of functional graphene for industrial applications incubated in ESA BIC Denmark to develop graphene-enhanced thermal adhesives to increase performance and lifetime of satellites.
Founded in 2020, it has worked to develop a scalable...
Humanity’s oldest source of renewable energy currently plays a pivotal role in the energy supply of over 160 countries worldwide. With 4,252 TWh generated in 2022, hydropower makes the largest contribution to total renewable electricity generation (37%), coming right...
Enabling & Support 10/07/2023 1256 views 32 likes
Space-based solar power could provide Earth with clean and reliable energy, 24 hours a day. As part of its SOLARIS initiative, ESA is inviting researchers to help...
A special test campaign undertaken in this ESA lab well before the launch of the Agency’s Euclid mission to explore the dark Universe has helped support an important manoeuvre that the newly-launched spacecraft is currently undertaking in space.On 4...
Enabling & Support 06/07/2023 253 views 21 likes
Pearls and seashells are made from the same basic stuff as easily crushed chalk – humble calcium carbonate – so why are they so much tougher? Researchers...
ESA’s Hera mission for planetary defence will perform a close-up survey of the Dimorphos asteroid in deep space. But first Hera needs to cross millions of kilometres of space to get there. That is the task of Hera’s...
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