A technician places a nearly 70 kg parachute designed for ESA and Roscosmos’s ExoMars 2020 mission inside…
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CHEOPS – Characterising Exoplanets
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully completed its final testing phase at Airbus Defence and Space Spain,…
CHEOPS – Characterising Exoplanets
The Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, has successfully completed its final testing phase at Airbus Defence and Space Spain,…
Cleaning Mars parachute
Technology image of the week: A test version of the main ExoMars 2020 parachute being heat…
Cleaning Mars parachute
Technology image of the week: A test version of the main ExoMars 2020 parachute being heat…
Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies
Engineers descended into bunkers to test space batteries to destruction – through overheating, overcharging, short circuits…
Testing space batteries to destruction for cleaner skies
Engineers descended into bunkers to test space batteries to destruction – through overheating, overcharging, short circuits…
Cheops in the clean room
The copper-coloured baffle cover of our Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, in the clean room at Airbus…
Cheops in the clean room
The copper-coloured baffle cover of our Characterising Exoplanet Satellite, Cheops, in the clean room at Airbus…
Space radiation detector can help to spot fake masterpieces
Technology originally developed for CERN’s Large Hadron Collider and then flown in space by ESA is…