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ESA recieves first measurements sent from Solar Orbiter instrument

Air February 20, 2020

The first measurements have been received from the ESA Solar Orbiter instrument which was launched earlier this month. The Solar Orbiter instrument has sent data to ground control at the European Space Operations Centre in Darmstadt, Germany. The instrument recorded data before, during and after the boom’s deployment, allowing the scientists ...

ESA launches Solar Orbiter mission

Air February 14, 2020

The ESA has launched its Solar Orbiter mission which will take images of previously unseen regions of the Sun. The ESA (European Space Agency), in collaboration with NASA, launched the Solar Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral on 10 February. It will also investigate how intense radiation and energetic particles being blasted ...

Report examines the benefits of investment into space science

Air February 5, 2020

A new report from the UK Space Agency looks at the economic benefits of spending in space science. The report has found that £523million in UK Space Agency funding into the ESA’s Space Science programme has generated £1.4billion for UK industry. The UK industry regularly secures major ESA contracts to provide ...

Dstl to study effects of space weather on communications

Homeland January 23, 2018

A new experiment to study the effects of space weather on global communications is being launched by the UK and US governments. Using specially designed shoebox-sized satellites known as CubeSats, scientists from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) will be able to study the Earth’s upper atmosphere and find out how ...