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A defunct European satellite is falling to Earth and is expected to plunge uncontrolled through the atmosphere Wednesday. The vast majority of the dead satellite is expected to burn up in the ...
ERS-2, a now-defunct satellite and one of the European Space Agency's first advanced Earth observing satellites, will make a "natural" reentry after staying in space for 16 years.
The trajectory of Europa Clipper will include a gravity assist from Mars on March 1, 2025, [10] allowing it to speed further away from the Sun, then down towards the Sun and back out, and gain additional kinetic energy from an Earth gravity assist on December 3, 2026. [11]
The Earth-observing ERS-2 satellite first launched on April 21, 1995, and it was the most sophisticated satellite of its kind at the time to be developed and launched by Europe.
EagleEye is an Earth observation satellite in very low Earth orbit. It is the first satellite developed and operated by the Polish Space Agency (POLSA), as previous Polish satellites, PW-Sat, BRITE, and Intuition-1, were designed and operated by private firms.
ESA selected Thales Alenia Space's Italian division for the construction of the satellite in Turin. Euclid is 4.5 metres long with a diameter of 3.1 metres and a mass of 2 tonnes. [3] Meanwhile, the Euclid payload module was the responsibility of Airbus Defence and Space's French division in Toulouse.
PARIS/ROME (Reuters) -Europe's Airbus, Thales and Leonardo are exploring plans to set up a new joint space company as they look to compete with Elon Musk's Starlink. "Project Bromo", named after ...
Copernicus is the Earth observation component of the European Union Space Programme, managed by the European Commission and implemented in partnership with the EU member states, the European Space Agency (ESA), the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT), the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), the Joint Research Centre (JRC ...