If space is an ocean, then the Moon is our nearest island. An island that last saw human visitors in December 1972, when the final Apollo mission returned home.
Posted on Tuesday June 6th, 2023 by julien
A critical design review occurred in April for the communications antenna ESA is supplying for NASA’s Habitation and Logistics Outpost (HALO) on the Gateway. Time to catch up with ESA’s Esprit project lead Luca Stagnaro on this milestone. Luca is responsible for both elements that make up Esprit, the Esprit HALO lunar communications system (known […]
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Posted on Friday January 13th, 2023 by julien
Introducing the team that is designing and building the ESA modules for the lunar Gateway. Young Graduate Trainee and engineer Tatjana Mandil.
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Posted on Tuesday May 17th, 2022 by Nadjejda
A Moon bread recipe challenge is set to heat up ovens across Europe in the countdown to the first Artemis mission to lunar orbit – one that gets its temperature and power under control by the European Service Module.
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Posted on Friday May 13th, 2022 by julien
As Artemis sets its sights on the Moon, powered by the European Service Module (ESM), all eyes will again turn to the night sky. This interactive publication encourages us to look up at our natural satellite and think about how the Moon has inspired us, from Ancient Greece to the 21st century, to develop our understanding […]
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Posted on Friday April 22nd, 2022 by julien
Half a century after the Apollo 15 and 16 lunar landing missions, observations made by their scientific instruments still have a lot to say about the Moon and the Universe.
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Posted on Tuesday December 21st, 2021 by Laura
Humankind's ambition to explore our steady orbital companion, the Moon, sustainably is accelerating around the globe. Many agencies are preparing for or already operating new robotic and human missions to the Moon, most prominently NASA’s Artemis programme that will fly astronauts to the Moon again about 50 years after Apollo. All international partners, including the European Space Agency (ESA), must prepare for upcoming lunar missions and a facility planned next to ESA's European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, will recreate Moon conditions on Earth like never before.
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Posted on Thursday October 14th, 2021 by Nadjejda
The second European Service Module for NASA’s Orion spacecraft is on its way to USA. It is the last stopover on Earth before this made-in-Europe powerhouse takes the first astronauts around the Moon on the Artemis II mission.
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Posted on Wednesday September 29th, 2021 by Nadjejda
People with sight loss and sensory disabilities often experience problems seeking information online. ESA is bringing the Moon closer to them with a more accessible series of infographics.
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