Luca Parmitano
(English) Beyond: one year since Luca’s landing
Posted on samedi 6 février 2021 by Ally
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
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(English) New podcast episode: entering the Space Station era
Posted on mercredi 3 février 2021 by Ally
(English) The latest episode of ESA’s ESA Explores Time and Space podcast series is out now, taking listeners beyond SpaceLab to the start of the International Space Station era.
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Spacewalking
(English) Space antenna safely installed
Posted on lundi 1 février 2021 by Ally
(English) Europe strengthened its connection to space on Wednesday 27 January, as NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover installed the Columbus KA-band antenna (ColKa) outside ESA’s Columbus laboratory on the International Space Station.
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Thomas Pesquet
Second commercial mission launch to International Space Station no earlier than 20 April
Posted on samedi 30 janvier 2021 by julien
A launch date of no earlier than Tuesday, 20 April 20 has been set for the launch of the second crew mission that will bring four astronauts to the International Space Station. NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur will serve as spacecraft commander and pilot, respectively. Japanese JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and ESA astronaut […]
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(English) Spaceship EAC: Dissolving moon dust’s secrets
Posted on jeudi 28 janvier 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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Spacewalking
(English) A complex choreography
Posted on mardi 26 janvier 2021 by Ally
(English) After more than a year of preparation and plan refinement, crew and ground teams are ready for a new era of connectivity between Europe and the International Space Station.
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Matthias Maurer
(English) Matthias Maurer assigned to first spaceflight
Posted on mardi 15 décembre 2020 by Ally
(English) ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer has been assigned for his first flight to the International Space Station during a meeting of representatives from the USA, Russian, Japanese, Canadian and European space agencies at the beginning of December.
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(English) Spaceship EAC: designing lunar living
Posted on jeudi 26 novembre 2020 by Laura
Integrated product design may not be an obvious fit with lunar exploration, but through a six-month internship within the Spaceship EAC team at ESA’s Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, Emilia Rosselli Del Turco of Italy has shown how smart design can be a space saver.
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