SPACENEWS

Snow cover is a vital source of water for industry, agriculture and human consumption. Records show that last winter’s snow cover in the Alps was less than it has been since 2001. This Copernicus Sentinel-3 image captured on 18 December 2022 shows the wide-coverage of snowfall which hopefully bodes well for the coming year. Carrying Read More

A hackathon challenged aerospace students to develop a detailed digital system model for a robotic assistant for astronauts on the Moon, able to identify key areas of interest in advance of any humans landing, guide them to their habitat and even rescue any moonwalkers in distress.  The winning team, from France’s Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique Read More

Welcome to this edition of ESA Impact, an interactive publication covering stories and images from the fourth quarter of 2022. ESA Impact Q4 shows Orion in orbit round the Moon, a successful Ministerial meeting, ESA’s most important launch of the year, and beautiful pics of what else we’ve been up to this quarter.  Don’t miss Read More

After a successful Chairmanship, which saw enhanced A6 joint collaboration with European institutions and a strong focus on maximising synergies among its member, ENAIRE’s Steering Board term comes to an end. • In 2022, ENAIRE, the Spanish Air Navigation Service Provider, led the A6 Alliance CEOs Steering Board. • At its last A6 Steering Board Read More

The One ESA brochure explores ESA’s establishments and how they work together on European space missions. Whether it’s training astronauts, developing launchers, telecoms innovation, Earth observation or our space safety programmes, everyone across the organisation works towards our goals as ‘One ESA’. Colourful illustrations bring our space activities to life. The brochure is printed in Read More

The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured one of the first medium-deep wide-field images of the cosmos, featuring a region of the sky known as the North Ecliptic Pole. The image, which accompanies a paper published in the Astronomical Journal, is from the Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science (PEARLS) GTO program. The Read More

The voice counted backwards in French from ten to one, then announced, “Décollage” – lift-off. The 15-year-long collaboration between NASA, ESA and the Canadian Space Agency had just entered its most critical phase: the launch itself. What happened next would determine whether the James Webb Space Telescope made it into space or not. Webb launch campaign Read More

In brief After the success of the pilot on-site edition in 2020 and online edition in 2021, ESA Academy is looking again for 30 highly motivated engineering Master and PhD students with a foundation knowledge of Space Systems Engineering to attend the Clean Space Training Course 2023 from 28 to 31 March 2023 at the Read More

Heralds an era of high-performance connectivity with SES delivering dedicated, carrier-grade solutions from space to customers whenever and wherever desired SES announced today that the first two O3b mPOWER satellites were successfully launched into space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, United States, at 5:48 pm local Read More

• The award acknowledges ENAIRE's job placement programme for people with disabilities • The Envera project, in which ENAIRE is a partner, has managed to employ 247 people with mental, physical and/or sensory disabilities in Madrid, Barcelona, Málaga, Tenerife and Gran Canaria, 119 of them in the aviation sector ENAIRE, Spain's air navigation service provider, Read More