India launches two ESA sun-spotters that will fly in incredibly precise formation Proba-3's Occulter will blot out the sun to create eclipse-like effect Coronagraph can observe Science4 months | 14 Vega-C finally launches ESA's next Sentinel satellite Return to flight almost two years since ...
radar reveals massive antarctic ice retreat by adam mann science tiny new satellite produces beautiful global vegetation map by betsy mason science your odds of becoming an astronaut are going up by adam mann science air resistance in orbit by rhett allain science future mars astronauts may be ...
Another group of students from S5Lab is participating since 2017 in the ESA Fly Your Satellite! Programme, addressed at offering launch opportunities to University students team willing to manufacture, test and launch their CubeSat. The laboratory is participating with LEDSAT, a 1-U CubeSat ...
The principal components of the organization are (1) theEuropean Space Research and Technology Centre(ESTEC), located in Noordwijk,Netherlands, which houses the satellite project teams and testing facilities and is the agency’s main space science and technological research centre, (2) theEuropean Sp...
Airbus Defence and Space has successfully delivered the first Sentinel-4/UVN (Ultraviolet, Visible and Near Infra-Red) multispectral instrument flight model to the European Space Agency (ESA). It will be integrated onto the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder (MTG-S1) satellite next ...
latest innovations from programmes such as the Franco-Indian TRISHNA mission to offer a best-in-class instrument. It will acquire images in Very Near Infrared, Short Wave Infrared and Thermal Infrared. With a four day revisit capability, the satellite will fly over European latitudes ...
ESA astronauts Samantha Cristoforetti and Matthias Maurer joined 16 Chinese astronauts earlier this month for nine days of sea survival training off China's coastal city of Yantai. The ultimate goal is for ESA to establish a long term cooperation with China and ESA astronauts to fly on China's...
The development of ever more efficient HPC systems, the advent of Quantum Computing (QC), the rapid progress in satellite on-board processing capabilities all present an indisputable opportunity to push the boundaries of ML applications in the Earth system sciences. Higher computational throughput at ...
6. Fly your Thesis! - An Astronaut Experience: (Parabolic Flights opportunities for students) Opportunities given to students to fly experiments in ZERO-G conditions. After giving an outline of the past achievements, this paper will describe current activities in further detail, providing the status...