Posted on lundi 21 octobre 2024 by Laura
(English) In the first episode of the new ESA Explores series, "Road to the stars," we chat with ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer about the LUNA facility, Europe's Moon on Earth.
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Posted on vendredi 19 juillet 2024 by Laura
(English) Exciting developments are unfolding in Cologne, Germany, where ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR) are establishing a worldwide unique lunar analogue facility – LUNA. This week, the first lunar sandbag tapping —opening the bags to distribute the sand— marked an important step in preparing the hall for future Moon mission testing.
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Posted on vendredi 14 juin 2024 by Laura
Désolé, cet article est seulement disponible en English.
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Posted on mercredi 15 juin 2022 by Ally
(English) Filamentous fungi may not be the first thing most people think of when it comes to mining, but they could be the answer to construction on the Moon. João Figueira, a Master’s student with the University of Porto, Portugal, has been working with ESA and the German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Aerospace Medicine, to uncover how a unique biomining method could mould Europe’s next steps in space.
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Posted on mardi 21 décembre 2021 by Laura
(English) 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 mercredi 15 septembre 2021 by Ally
(English) A piece of the Moon, escorted by astronaut to ESA’s European Astronaut Centre (EAC) in Cologne, Germany, will soon serve as a public symbol of Europe’s next off-Earth adventure.
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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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