Hera asteroid mission in your house
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Published: December 20, 2024 10:59
Image: Hera asteroid mission in your house
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Philippines team add hypergravity for stronger bone cells
Published: December 19, 2024 15:19
A team of researchers from two universities in the Philippines made use of ESA’s Large Diameter Centrifuge to test the growth of bone cells in hypergravity. The results of their experiment could improve bone implant technology, as well as help support…
A fall of CubeSats
https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/A_fall_of_CubeSats
Published: December 18, 2024 10:40
Four pioneering ESA Technology CubeSats reentered Earth’s atmosphere over the last few months. Each was only about the size of a shoebox or smaller, but despite their diminutive dimensions the missions left an outsize legacy in terms of demonstrating…
Growing a business: from apps to software for space on Proba-3
Published: December 13, 2024 08:55
A key element of ESA’s role as Europe’s space agency is the expansion of space knowhow, by encouraging new actors into the field. Case in point: a Polish software company previously specialising in smartphone apps took on the challenge of designing the…
Swarm vs. space radiation – the first 10 years
Published: December 10, 2024 13:44
Satellites in orbit can become absentminded. Space radiation randomly flips onboard memory bits, potentially corrupting mission data and functionality. To better understand how this invisible onslaught works in practice, a team systematically analysed how…
The power of two: Proba-3
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/The_power_of_two_Proba-3
Published: December 5, 2024 12:30
Video: 00:02:32  ESA’s eclipse-making Proba-3 double satellite mission has made it to space! Learn more about Proba-3 from the mission team as they bid farewell to their spacecraft, while ESA's Director General Josef Aschbacher wishes the team the…
Proba-3 lift-off replay
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/Proba-3_lift-off_replay
Published: December 5, 2024 11:00
Video: 00:02:27 ESA’s Proba-3 mission lifted off on its PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on Thursday, 5 December, at 11:34 CET (10:34 GMT, 16:04 local time).
Eclipse-making double satellite Proba-3 enters orbit
Published: December 5, 2024 10:56
A pair of spacecraft were launched together today from India with the potential to change the nature of future space missions. ESA’s twin Proba-3 platforms will perform precise formation flying down to a single millimetre, as if they were one single giant…
Watch eclipse-making Proba-3 launch today
Published: December 5, 2024 07:00
Update: Launch delayed one day to ThursdayDue to a technical issue with the spacecraft, ESA’s eclipse-making precise formation-flying Proba-3 mission is now foreseen for launch on its PSLV-XL rocket from Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota, India, on…
Proba-3: Because it is hard
https://www.esa.int/ESA_Multimedia/Videos/2024/12/Proba-3_Because_it_is_hard
Published: December 4, 2024 09:20
Video: 00:02:02 Not because it is easy but because it is hard: this historic space phrase is pretty much the definition of ESA’s double-satellite Proba-3 mission, which will employ precise formation flying to produce artificial total solar eclipses…