Copernical Team
The cost of avoiding collision
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Collision avoidance: what's the cost? Youngest American to go into space is also a cancer survivor
By the end of the year, Hayley Arceneaux will be the youngest American in space and one of the first tourists to enter orbit unaccompanied by professional astronauts.
It is a feat made all the more remarkable by her battle to overcome a childhood cancer that robbed the 29 year old of her dream of becoming an astronaut herself.
Due to the bone cancer she overcame, Arceneaux has steel rods in her left leg—which until recently were enough to shatter her hopes of going into space.
ESA moves forward with Harmony
Following the selection of three Earth Explorer candidate missions to enter a first feasibility study in September 2018, ESA has chosen one of the candidates, Harmony, to move to the next phase of development. Harmony is envisaged as a mission with two satellites that orbit in formation with one of the Copernicus Sentinel-1 satellites to address key scientific questions related to ocean, ice and land dynamics.
NASA releases first audio from Mars, video of landing (Update)
Galileo/GNSS vacancies at ESA
We are looking for Global Navigation Satellite System experts to join our team and support the design and development of the next generation of satellites for Europe’s GNSS System, Galileo. If you have experience in GNSS systems, space systems, project planning or Galileo architecture read on to find out more.
Space snapshot
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Does this image make you anxious or are you already tracking where all the wires go? If the latter, you might have what it takes to be an astronaut!
It is an exciting time for space. With NASA’s latest rover safely on Mars and ESA’s call for the next class of astronauts, the space industry is teeming with possibilities.
This image taken in ESA’s Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station is a snapshot of the many opportunities in space research and exploration.
In the centre is the Biolab facility, a fridge-sized unit that hosts biological experiments on micro-organisms, cells, tissue cultures, small plants
Getz on the run
Using a 25-year record of satellite observations over the Getz region in West Antarctica, scientists have discovered that the pace at which glaciers flow towards the ocean is accelerating. This new research, which includes data from the Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission and ESA’s CryoSat mission, will help determine if these glaciers could collapse in the next few decades and how this would affect future global sea-level rise.
Join ESA’s virtual workshop on 5G plus satnav
The coming of 5G promises much more than simply better-than-wi-fi smartphone connectivity; it should enable a wide range of novel services, including asset tracking, autonomous driving and drone flying as well as the internet of things. Highly precise localisation is needed to make such innovations feasible however. ESA has led a major project assessing the potential of 5G and satellite navigation in combination and next month a webinar will make its initial findings public.
Latest progress in China's BeiDou Navigation Satellite System
China has been making continuous progress in the satellite navigation and positioning industry with significant moves and industrial applications in more diversified fields.
The following facts and figures offer a glimpse of the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) and China's latest moves to boost the sector:
+ China has recently released six documents detailing technical requir India to upgrade military comms with advanced radios to boost net-centric warfare capability
Indian's armed forces will be equipped with around 5,5000 state-of-the-art software defined radios as the system currently in place has limited or no data transmission capability.
India's Defence Ministry has announced that it will replace the army's Combat Net Radio (CNR) with state-of-the-art software defined radios (SDRs), which will be manufactured by Indian companies. Currently, CNR i