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ESA plasma sampler heads for the Moon and ISS

ESA plasma sampler heads for the Moon and ISS

Activation and Support 07/12/2022 737 views 40 love An innovative instrument supported by ESA to sample the space weather environment in situ is about to join the International Space Station. Langmuir’s Norwegian multi-needle probe, m-NLP, to be installed on the ISS’ European-made Bartolomeo platform, an open ‘porch’ to space, will map the ionospheric plasma surrounding …

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How nationalism doomed the International Space Station

How nationalism doomed the International Space Station

Orbiting the Earth since 1998, the International Space Station (ISS) is a multilateral project involving five space agencies around the world. He conducted thousands of experiments and helped the superpowers keep the corridors of communication open, even when relations on Earth were freezing. However, it is unclear whether the ISS will even reach NASA’s proposed …

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What is a medium exoplanet?  ESA's next ARIEL mission should provide answers

What is a medium exoplanet? ESA’s next ARIEL mission should provide answers

Artist’s impression of Ariel en route to Lagrange 2 (L2) point. Here the spaceship is shielded … [+] from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole sky. ESA/STFC Espace RAL/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office Five thousand extrasolar planets detected and counting, we still don’t have a standard model of the full range of planets circling …

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What is a medium exoplanet?  ESA's next ARIEL mission should provide answers

What is a medium exoplanet? ESA’s next ARIEL mission should provide answers

Artist’s impression of Ariel en route to Lagrange 2 (L2) point. Here the spaceship is shielded … [+] from the Sun and has a clear view of the whole sky. ESA/STFC Espace RAL/UCL/Europlanet-Science Office Five thousand extrasolar planets detected and counting, we still don’t have a standard model of the full range of planets circling …

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ESA gets big raise, commits to ISS until 2030 and ExoMars rover in 2028

ESA gets big raise, commits to ISS until 2030 and ExoMars rover in 2028

Today is a great day for the European Space Agency. Its governing ministerial council approved a 17% increase in funding, pledged to support the International Space Station until 2030 and pledged to ensure that the Rosalind Franklin rover travels to Mars after the derailment of the Euro-Russian ExoMars project by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. On …

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ESA 2022 astronaut class

ESA announces new class of astronauts – SpaceNews

PARIS — The European Space Agency has selected its first new astronauts in more than a decade, though long-term flight opportunities for the agency’s astronaut corps remain uncertain. At an event here immediately after a briefing on the agency’s new three-year budget on Nov. 23, ESA announced a class of 17 selected as a combination …

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