Moon
(English) Mixing realities for lunar exploration
Posted on Friday, der 14. June 2024 by Laura
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(English) Remote interns for remote Space Medicine land at EAC
Posted on Thursday, der 20. October 2022 by Laura
(English) Interns from various member states were invited to visit ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) at the end of September 2022 as despite landing an internship with ESA’s Space Medicine Team, they never got the opportunity to see the wonders of EAC due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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(English) Spaceship EAC: turning up the heat on lunar dust
Posted on Thursday, der 12. August 2021 by Laura
(English) “Heat for one minute. Then, remove from the microwave and leave to rest before constructing your lunar habitat.” This, or something similar, could be part of an astronaut’s instructions in the future, as microwaves are used to process lunar regolith on the Moon.
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(English) Spaceship friendship: forward to the Moon together
Posted on Thursday, der 20. May 2021 by Laura
(English) At ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, the Spaceship EAC initiative brings a team of young professionals and researchers together to advance the future of human and robotic space exploration. It is a lofty challenge that is gathering momentum, with new Spaceship sites in Toulouse, France and the UK.
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(English) Spaceship EAC: recycling water on the Moon
Posted on Tuesday, der 4. May 2021 by Laura
(English) As humans strive to return to the lunar surface and travel even farther into space, new solutions are needed to provide astronauts with ongoing access to oxygen, food and water. The team at Spaceship EAC at ESA’s European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, is researching critical subsystems that could support water recycling, energy storage and In-situ Resource Utilisation (ISRU) in space.
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(English) Spaceship EAC: 3D printing with lunar dust
Posted on Monday, der 29. March 2021 by Laura
(English) Aurélie Hand, of France, is a materials engineering student currently completing a 13-month Master’s internship at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. As part of Spaceship EAC's advanced manufacturing team, she is using different simulants to test 3D printing technology for sustainable living on the Moon.
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(English) Spaceship EAC: artificial intelligence for astronauts
Posted on Tuesday, der 2. March 2021 by Laura
(English) Clara Moriceau from France has spent six months thinking like an astronaut as COVID-19 restrictions moved her internship at ESA’s Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, from in-person to online. With a background in space systems engineering, Clara is part of Spaceship EAC’s disruptive technology team and has been working remotely on two projects in the field of artificial intelligence (AI).
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(English) Spaceship EAC: Dissolving moon dust’s secrets
Posted on Thursday, der 28. January 2021 by Laura
(English) What if, on the Moon, we could simply extract all the oxygen we need directly from the ground? This is the question asked by Austrian master's student of chemistry and materials science Sebastian Rohde during his nine-month internship in the Spaceship EAC team at ESA's Astronaut Centre in Cologne. And it yielded some interesting results.
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