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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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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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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Posted on mardi 27 octobre 2020 by Ally
(English) Monday 2 November marks 20 years since the first crew took up residence on the International Space Station. Since then the football field-sized feat of engineering has hosted 26 European missions and supported over 2700 international experiments to improve life on Earth and in space.
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Posted on vendredi 23 octobre 2020 by Ally
(English) The latest episode in ESA's ESA Explores Time and Space podcast series is out now and this time the focus is Spacelab – a reusable European-build science laboratory designed to fit inside NASA's Space Shuttle.
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Posted on mardi 20 octobre 2020 by julien
(English) Browse all Thomas Pesquet’s pictures on a map of the world and more.
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Posted on vendredi 16 octobre 2020 by Annelies Van Dam
(English) As any scientist will confirm, a huge part of doing science is being attentive. Making sure experiments run smoothly. Observing outcomes. Fine-tuning settings to the tiniest degree. With many different experiments running simultaneously on the Space Station, 400 kilometres above the earth, at a speed of roughly 28 000 km/h, attention to detail becomes an invaluable virtue.
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Posted on lundi 21 septembre 2020 by Ally
(English) The first episode in a new ESA Explores podcast series is available now via all major podcast platforms, including Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify.
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