Tag: ESA

Lessons learnt from simulated strike (ESA)

In an alternate reality playing out at this year’s international Planetary Defense Conference, a fictional asteroid crashes over Europe, 'destroying' a region about 100 km...

Glacier avalanches more common than thought (ESA)

One tends to think of mountain glaciers as slow moving, their gradual passage down a mountainside visible only through a long series of satellite...

ESA to build second deep space dish in Australia (ESA)

ESA, in cooperation with the Australian Space Agency, will construct a new 35-metre, deep space dish antenna at its existing ground station in...

ESA Explores a fictional asteroid impact (ESA)

Once every two years, asteroid experts around the globe meet up and pretend an asteroid impact is imminent. Why? To prepare for the likely...

Setting sail for sustainable space (ESA)

Space is getting crowded. Old satellites, rocket bodies and fragments of both are leaving little space for new satellites to reside in that is...

Forest measuring satellite passes tests with flying colours (ESA)

With challenges imposed by the Covid pandemic, engineers building and testing ESA’s Biomass satellite have had to come up with some clever working methods...

Hot and cold space radio testing (ESA)

ESA’s newest radio-frequency test facility allows direct measurement of antenna systems in the very vacuum conditions and thermal extremes they will work in, including...

‘Campfires’ offer clue to solar heating mystery (ESA)

Computer simulations show that the miniature solar flares nicknamed ‘campfires’, discovered last year by ESA’s Solar Orbiter, are likely driven by a process that...

New ESA telescope in South America to search for asteroids (ESA)

ESA’s second Test-Bed Telescope, hosted at the European Southern Observatory’s (ESO) La Silla Observatory in Chile, has seen ‘first light’ – when a new telescope is...

Dodging debris to keep satellites safe (ESA)

Our planet is surrounded by spacecraft helping us study our changing climate, save lives following disasters, deliver global communication and navigation services and help...

Satellites highlight a 30-year rise in ocean acidification (ESA)

Oceans play a vital role in taking the heat out of climate change, but at a cost. New research supported by ESA and using...

ESA and FAO unite to tackle food security and more (ESA)

With ESA positioned as a world-class provider of Earth observation data and the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) leading international efforts to...

Earth from Space: Space Coast, Florida (ESA)

On 22 April 2021, on Earth Day, Thomas Pesquet is planned to return to the International Space Station for his second mission, Alpha. Ahead...

Satellite imagery key to powering Google Earth (ESA)

One of the most comprehensive pictures of our changing planet is now available to the public. Thanks to the close collaboration between Google Earth,...

ESA & UNOOSA on space debris: Directors Josef Aschbacher and Simonetta di Pippo in conversation (ESA)

https://soundcloud.com/esa/josef-aschbacher-and-simonetta-di-pippo-in-conversation

Drone test of Hera mission’s asteroid radar (ESA)

This drone hauled a model of the Juventas CubeSat high into the air, as a practical test of the antennas designed to perform the...