Tag: ESA

Space for a Green Future (ESA)

The climate crisis is the most urgent challenge faced by humankind – affecting every region, continent, and ocean on Earth. Space has an untapped...

Hunting for marine plastic (ESA)

Marine plastic litter was dumped into a realistic scale model of the Atlantic Ocean to test if space technologies would be able to detect...

Change in the Arctic (ESA)

Satellites play a vital role in monitoring the rapid changes taking place in the Arctic. Tracking ice lost from the world’s glaciers, ice sheets...

First Copernicus satellite exceeds design working life (ESA)

This week marks seven years since the very first satellite that ESA built for the European Union’s Copernicus programme started delivering data to monitor...

Microgravity on demand with Earth return through ESA’s Boost! (ESA)

A new six-month round-trip commercial space transportation service from 2022, backed by ESA, will enable companies to manufacture in space very pure and more...

Going hyperspectral for CHIME (ESA)

With Covid restrictions a little more relaxed, scientists from Europe and the USA were finally able to team up for a long-awaited field experiment...

Gloomy moonscape for rover test (ESA)

A Sun barely peeking over a cratered horizon, casting long shadows across a rocky moonscape: ESA’s Erasmus Innovation Centre was transformed into an analogue of the...

Soundblasting a satellite – time-lapse of testing (ESA)

Verifying that a satellite will resist the sheer noise of the rocket launching it into orbit is a very important test that every mission...

Earth from Space: Maharloo Lake (ESA)

Maharloo Lake, a seasonal salt lake in Iran, is featured in this image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. ESA - Earth from Space: Maharloo...

Path set for commercial communications around the Moon (ESA)

ESA confirmed a contract signature yesterday with Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd (SSTL) to be the main customer for their Lunar Pathfinder satellite launching in...

Space. Volcanic trenches on Mars (ESA)

This image of the young volcanic region of Elysium Planitia on Mars was taken on 14 April 2021 by the CaSSIS camera on...

Space. Earth from Space: Danube Delta (ESA)

The Danube Delta is a labyrinth of water and land shared between Romania and Ukraine, made up of countless lakes, channels and islands lying...

Cybersecurity/China. Overseas cyber-attacks spike during major Chinese holidays and ceremonies (Fan Lingzhi, Global Times)

cyber attack Photo: CFP The number of overseas cyber-attacks on the Guizhou-Cloud system platform often increase significantly during China's major holidays and celebrations, a manager...

Space. Cassini’s wake: how might a spacecraft disturb its own measurements? (ESA)

Simply by moving through the heavens, spacecraft change the space about them. Such interactions are invisible to the naked eye, but can endanger mission...

Space. Targeted launch date for Webb: 18 December 2021 (ESA)

ESA, NASA and Arianespace have jointly defined 18 December 2021 as the target launch date for Ariane 5 flight VA256. This third Ariane 5...

Space. ESA Council agrees resolution on Ariane 6 and Vega-C exploitation and future space transportation (ESA)

ESA Member States have agreed upon the boundary conditions for Europe’s upcoming exploitation of Ariane 6 and Vega-C and request ESA to propose a roadmap for new and...