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The European Space Agency in the service of aviation MRO

MAINTENANCE / MRO | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Thu, Nov 28^th 2019 |

Aircraft maintenance is not an area that we generally associated with the space sector. And yet, the European Space Agency (ESA) has shown that it can be useful in th...

Europe faces up to new space challenges

SPACE | AEROCONTACT | Thu, Nov 28^th 2019 |

European ministers met Wednesday in Spain aiming to defend its top space ranking against challenges from the United States and China, and increasingly from industry disruptors such as Elon Musk's Space X.Ministers of ...

New crew blasts off for ISS

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jun 6^th 2018 |

A relatively inexperienced crew of two astronauts and a cosmonaut blasted off Wednesday from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for a five-month mission on the International Space Station. German Alexander Gerst o...

Europe's space agency braces for Brexit fallout

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Wed, Jan 17^th 2018 |

The European Space Agency (ESA) is drawing up contingency plans for projects, commercial deals, and staffing that may be adversely affected by Brexit, senior officials said Wednesday.Programmes throw in flux by Brita...

Russia launches European satellite to monitor Earth's atmosphere

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Fri, Oct 13^th 2017 |

Russia on Friday launched a European satellite dedicated to monitoring the Earth's atmosphere, the protective layer that shields the planet from the sun's radiation, ...

Europe launches fourth Earth monitoring satellite

SPACE | LE JOURNAL DE L'AVIATION | Tue, Mar 7^th 2017 |

Europe launched a fourth satellite Tuesday for its Copernicus Earth-monitoring project to track changes in forest cover and air pollution, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.The 1.1-tonne, "colour-vision" Sent...