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Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) is a United Kingdom welfare payment for adults younger than the State Pension age who are having difficulty finding work because of their long-term medical condition or a disability. It is a basic income-replacement benefit paid in lieu of wages.
The core WCA generated high volumes of 'fit for work' recommendations from its inception. As the reassessment programme gathered steam, the proportion disregarded by decision-makers grew: 8% of 'fit for work' recommendations were disregarded in 2012; this almost doubled to 15% in 2013 and then increased again in 2014 to 20%. [7]
View from the Operations Manager desk across the control room at ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany.. The European Space Agency (ESA) operates a number of missions, both operational and scientific, including collaborations with other national space agencies such as the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES), the Italian Space Agency (ASI), the German ...
The European Space Agency (ESA) [a] is a 23-member intergovernmental body devoted to space exploration. [8] With its headquarters in Paris and a staff of around 2,547 people globally as of 2023, the ESA was founded in 1975.
ESA had originally identified two NEOs as possible targets for its Quijote mission: 2002 AT 4 and (10302) 1989 ML. [132] Neither asteroid represents a threat to Earth. In a subsequent study, two different possibilities were selected: the Amor asteroid 2003 SM84 and 99942 Apophis ; the latter is of particular significance to Earth as it will ...
The NASA-ESA Mars Sample Return is a proposed Flagship-class Mars sample return (MSR) mission [3] to collect Martian rock and soil samples in 43 small, cylindrical, pencil-sized, titanium tubes and return them to Earth around 2033.
The 2022 European Space Agency Astronaut Group is the latest class of the European Astronaut Corps. The selection recruited five "career" astronauts as well as 12 "reserve/project" astronauts (including one "astronaut with a physical disability"). [1] They are the fourth European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut class to be recruited. [2]
The design of Mars Express is based on ESA's Rosetta mission, on which a considerable sum was spent on development. The same design was also used for ESA's Venus Express mission in order to increase reliability and reduce development cost and time. Because of these redesigns and repurposings, the total cost of the project was about $345 million ...