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Happy birthday to you, Electromagnetic Levitator!

Posted on Friday May 17th, 2024 by Marie Deschamps

This summer marks the ten-year anniversary of the electromagnetic levitation facility on the International Space Station.  Helping to reveal the core physics at play in materials science, the Electromagnetic Levitator (EML) is a furnace in ESA’s Columbus laboratory that can melt metals by induction heating them up to 2200 °C. Scientists can then observe the samples […]

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Podcasts

ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with John McFall

Posted on Friday May 10th, 2024 by Laura

In Episode 9 of the ESA Explores podcast series, John McFall, a member of the European astronaut reserve shares his story and explains all about ESA's "Fly!" feasibility study.

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Podcasts

ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Alexander Gerst

Posted on Friday April 26th, 2024 by Laura

In Episode 8 of this ESA Explores podcast series, we chat with ESA astronaut Alexander Gerst about his role as head of astronaut operations at ESA's European Astronaut Centre, guiding the next generation of space explorers on their adventures.

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ESA Astronaut Class of 2022

Hop hop hooray

Posted on Friday April 26th, 2024 by Laura

It’s time to celebrate ESA’s newly graduated astronauts. This Monday 22 April 2024 marked the official completion of one year of rigorous basic training for Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Sophie Adenot, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber at ESA's European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany. 

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Podcasts

ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Katherine Bennell-Pegg

Posted on Monday April 22nd, 2024 by Laura

In Episode 7 of the ESA Explores podcast series, Australian Space Agency astronaut candidate Katherine Bennell-Pegg shares her insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.

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Training

A journey through ice and fire

Posted on Tuesday March 26th, 2024 by Laura

ESA astronaut candidate Rosemary Coogan from the UK mastering fire and frost during winter survival training in the snowy mountains of the Spanish Pyrenees as part of her basic astronaut training.

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Podcasts

ESA astronaut class of 2022: Astro Chat with Sophie Adenot

Posted on Friday March 22nd, 2024 by Laura

In Episode 6 of the ESA Explores podcast series, highlighting our 2022 astronaut class, ESA astronaut candidate Sophie Adenot shares her insights into basic astronaut training at the European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne.

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