August 2019
Architectural challenges of a Moon village
... course, 35 Master’s students developed hypothetical scenarios for a future Moon village. The studio was supported by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (bmvit) and experts from...
April 2021
Norway’s pioneering use of microsatellites
... of ocean areas, much of which is in the Arctic, monitoring and control is a challenge. Norway has been a member of the European Space Agency (ESA) since 1985 and is a full member of the EU programmes Copernicus and Galileo. The national benefit...
November 2019
Space kaleidoscope - towards a genuine multi-messenger exploration
As NASA, the European Space Agency and the space industry look to return to the Moon and to venture even further, we should be asking: what image of humanity do we want to project onto new space environments? Is it a narrow picture or an inclusive ...
January 2019
Engineering six-hour solar eclipses with formation flying
Proba-3 is the European Space Agency’s (ESA) precise formation flying space mission in which two satellites... Corona of the Sun) and is developed by a consortium of European institutes and industries. The unprecedented field of view makes it uniquely ...
January 2020
Open source space sustainability
... Forum, the MIT Media Lab, the University of Texas at Austin, the European Space Agency, and Bryce Space and Technology, is developing a space sustainability certification programme analogous to Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED...
April 2020
Satellite mega-constellations pose threat to ground-based astronomy
... the impressive flashes caused by the older Iridium satellites. Typical smallsats in a mega constellation. The European Space Agency’s Space Debris Office estimates there are currently some 22,000 artificial objects of considerable size (several tens...
