Do you need to test your new satellite technology in space? ESA and the EU are ready to help with flight ticket opportunities
The European Commission and the European Space Agency are jointly offering flight ticket opportunities for European companies or organisations to co-fund the launch services to test your new satellite technologies in space.
Momentus successfully test-fires thruster on Vigoride-5
n-space transportation company Momentus announced March 31 it has successfully started tests of the propulsion system on its Vigoride tug launched earlier this year.
China launches 4 InSAR satellites and new Yaogan reconnaissance sat
China conducted a pair of launches across Thursday and Friday, sending interferometric synthetic aperture radar and reconnaissance satellites in orbit.
Space official calls for China to seize crucial opportunity to establish lunar infrastructure
NOAA's GOES-U satellite completes pre-launch acoustics tests
GOES-U, the fourth and final satellite in NOAA's GOES-R Series, recently completed acoustics testing as part of a rigorous testing program to ensure it can withstand the harsh conditions of launch and orbiting in space 22,236 miles above Earth.
During acoustic testing, GOES-U endured extremely high sound pressure of 138.4 decibels from high-intensity horns. This testing simulated the noises GOES-U will experience when it is launched.
The testing was conducted at Lockheed Martin Space's Littleton, Colorado, facility, where GOES-U was built. GOES-U is scheduled to launch in April 2024.
The GOES-R program is a collaborative effort between the National Aeronautics and Space Agency (NASA) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). NASA builds and launches the satellites for NOAA, which operates them and distributes their data to users worldwide.
Week in images: 27-31 March 2023
Week in images: 27-31 March 2023
Discover our week through the lens
The Making of Juice – Episode 10.3
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The Making of Juice series takes the viewer behind the scenes of the European space industry, space technology and planetary science communities around ESA’s Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer (Juice) mission.
Juice has a state-of-the-art science payload comprising remote sensing, geophysical and in situ instruments. This episode focuses on the geophysics instruments, which will explore the moons’ surface and subsurface, probe the atmospheres of Jupiter and its moons, and measure their gravity fields.
The GAnymede Laser Altimeter (GALA) will study the tidal deformation of Ganymede and the topography of the surfaces of the icy moons. The Radar for Icy Moons
ESA Impact 2023 – Quarter 1
ESA Impact 2023 – Quarter 1
Welcome to this edition of ESA Impact, an interactive publication covering stories and images from the first quarter of 2023.
Shaun the Sheep is baaa-ck
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Shaun the Sheep is baaa-ck GENESIS of a new Earth: join ESA’s Earth measurement mission
The idea behind ESA’s GENESIS mission is simple: a fixed framework is needed to chart the relative positions of locations across our planet, and satellites in orbit serve as the foundation of this framework. Fix a satellite’s own position in space accurately enough and you can measure Earth under it much more precisely too.
