March 2018
Plumes on Europa - tasting an extra-terrestrial ocean
... Clipper mission, it will be the first opportunity to study this enigmatic world from close-quarters since the Galileo mission. One of the 11 JUICE experiments is the Particle Environment Package (PEP), comprising six instruments designed to study...
July 2018
The rise of interplanetary CubeSats
...debris. Propulsion has been identified as the biggest hurdle yet for interplanetary CubeSats A second example is NASA’s Galileo mission. Galileo, despite being hampered by a communication antenna that didn’t fully deploy, was able to provide the most...
03 September 2018
Water discovered in Jupiter's Great Red Spot suggests plenty more down below
...more water than we have here on Earth. However the region that Galileo plunged into turned out to be a lot drier than researchers had... a very different picture of the data obtained from the Galileo probe. Lurking within the Great Red Spot, the team ...
June 2015
Promoting growth at geostationary orbit with a one-stop-shop
...This work led to winning a role in building Galileo, the European GPS system. The Eutelsat Quantum geostationary spacecraft. At the... conclusion of the work on Galileo, we came back to developing the geo platform. Working...
October 2015
Earth independence: new definitions of home on Mars missions and beyond
... explorers will know as ‘home’ – the Earth-Moon system, as seen in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft I have a picture of Earth taken in 1990 by the Galileo spacecraft on its way to Jupiter. From a distance of 4 million miles our home appears a planetary...
July 2016
France, Europe and Russia - two decades of space launch cooperation
... Guiana to both French and European programmes. Most of the launches have been dedicated to the deployment of the Galileo constellation, the Earth observation satellites Sentinel (European Union, ESA) and Pleiades (CNES), as well as the scientific...
