A new sensor for all-weather ‘nowcasting’ has produced its first outdoor image. ESA’s Geostationary Atmospheric Sounder…
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Investors scout space spin-offs
Investors looking for promising opportunities in space spin-offs used ESA’s Investment Forum in Stuttgart, Germany, this…
Tests of textile antenna prove successful
With a simple press on the insignia of his shirt, a certain captain in a famous…
Turning space technology into business
For the fifth time, ESA hosted this month the one-week CEMS kick-off seminar for students from…
Augmented reality to help astronauts make sense of space
Life aboard the International Space Station is hard work. Crewmembers have a multiplicity of complex tasks,…
Columbus to host worldwide sea traffic tracking experiment
ESA's Columbus module on the International Space Station is being fitted with experimental hardware to track…
Chinks in ISS armour deliver data on space junk impacts
Speeding along in orbit at more than seven kilometres per second, the International Space Station has…
ESA preparing ‘sugar-cube’ gyro sensors for future missions
One of ESA's future Earth observation missions will monitor its orientation in space with the help…
Proba-2 flies into its Russian launch site
Proba-2 has reached Plesetsk Cosmodrome in northern Russia, where it is being prepared for launch this…
Weaknesses in dikes detected by space tech spin-off
A company from one of ESA’s Business Incubation Centres has used space technology to develop a…