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On 5 December 2024, the mobile building surrounding the Vega-C rocket with Earth-observer Sentinel-1C was rolled back at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, setting the rocket up for launch to a sun-synchronous orbit.
Earth-observer Sentinel-1C is flying on Vega-C rocket flight VV25. At 35 m tall, Vega-C weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad and reaches orbit with three solid-propellant-powered stages before the fourth liquid-propellant stage takes over for precise placement of Sentinel-1C into its orbit.
Carrying advanced radar technology to provide an all-weather, day-and-night supply of imagery of Earth’s surface, the ambitious Copernicus Sentinel-1 mission has raised the bar for spaceborne radar.
The mission benefits numerous Copernicus services and applications such as those that relate to Arctic sea-ice monitoring, iceberg tracking, routine sea-ice mapping, glacier-velocity monitoring, surveillance of the marine environment including oil-spill monitoring and ship detection for maritime security as well as illegal fisheries monitoring.
Europe’s Vega-C rocket can launch 2300 kg into space, such as small scientific and Earth observation spacecraft. Vega-C is the evolution of the Vega family of rockets and delivers increased performance, greater payload volume and improved competitiveness.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
At the invitation of ESA Director General Josef Aschbacher, NASA Administrator Bill Nelson attended the ESA Council at ESA’s establishment ESTEC in the Netherlands on 15 June 2022.
ESA is currently working with NASA on many areas, from science such as the James Webb Space Telescope to exploration such as Mars Sample Return, Artemis and the International Space Station, to Earth observation.
At the ESA Council, a framework agreement between ESA and NASA for a strategic partnership in Earth System Science was signed, as well as a memorandum of understanding between ESA and NASA on the Lunar Pathfinder mission.
Credits: ESA-S.Corvaja
The Art and Science Exhibition Part III consists of a scientific educational part showing some of the most beautiful satellite images of the Earth, curated by ESA, along with some interactive terminals providing the scientific background information. Several examples of artistic works with satellite imaging and historical references to the field comprise the second part of this exhibition.
This satellite image is also part of the Spaceship Earth Exhibition (2015) at Ars Electronica Center, Linz.
credit: Namib / Satellite: Kompsat-2, KARI/ESA
las caricias se desvanecieron, en poco tiempo demasiadas malas experiencias, lejos de todo y de todos kiero irme gritar fxerte sin qxe nadie pxeda oirme, pienso en xn mañana y no se si mi corazon pxeda sentir como antes, se mxere lentamente... qxiero desaparecer, qxiero ser esa qxe era antes de morir!
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ESA's newly selected astronaut candidates of the class of 2022 arrived at the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, Germany, on 3 April 2023 to begin their 12-month basic training.
The group of five candidates, Sophie Adenot, Pablo Álvarez Fernández, Rosemary Coogan, Raphaël Liégeois, and Marco Sieber, are part of the 17-member astronaut class of 2022, selected from 22 500 applicants from across ESA Member States in November 2022.
The astronaut candidates will be trained to the highest level of standards in preparation for future space missions. During basic training, this includes learning all about space exploration, technical and scientific disciplines, space systems and operations, as well as spacewalk and survival training.
This image shows the candidate Raphaël Liégeois on his first day at the European Astronaut Centre, ready to embark on their journey to become certified ESA astronauts.
Credits: ESA-S. Corvaja
Ever daydreamed about owning your own spaceship? As the next best thing – thanks to a free app launching today – anyone with an Apple Vision Pro or Meta Quest 3 or 3S VR headset can have ESA’s Hera asteroid mission for planetary defence turn up in their own living room.
Developed by Italian startup DIVE in cooperation with ESA’s Hera mission team, the “Guardians of Earth” app allows users to peer within a virtual spacecraft, learn about how it works, assemble its elements and follow its journey through space to its target asteroid.
“The availability of this app makes for a great Christmas gift, allowing people to learn about and interact with our mission in a totally new and immersive way,” notes Hera mission manager Ian Carnelli. “This was a dream project for DIVE founder Luca De Dominicis, who sadly recently passed away, yet whose vision for making space exploration accessible to everyone continues through this collaboration.”
DIVE CEO Michaelangelo Mochi adds: “Partnering with ESA is a journey we cherish deeply, akin to astronauts venturing into the unknown. We are proud to work alongside an organisation that shares our vision and commitment to exploration.”
Launched last October, Hera is ESA’s first planetary defence mission, on its way to visit the first asteroid to have had its orbit altered by human action. By gathering close-up data about the Dimorphos asteroid, which was impacted by NASA’s DART spacecraft in 2022, Hera will help turn asteroid deflection into a well understood and potentially repeatable technique. Hera is currently on its way to a ‘swingby’ of Mars next spring which will set on course towards Dimorphos.
With Guardians of Earth, users can engage with the Hera spacecraft in remarkable detail through augmented reality. They can choose to put it together piece by piece, discover its advanced instrumentation and experience key space travel technologies. Through the involvement of video game studio 34BigThings, the app offers a 360-degree immersive experience, projecting users into the cosmos with Hera, bringing them face-to-face with celestial bodies encountered along the way.
From today, the app is available for free on Apple Vision Pro from the App Store and for Meta Quest 3 and 3S.
Want to know more about the Hera mission? Try asking the mission ‘directly’, through Hera Space Companion, an interactive AI-powered assistant providing facts about the mission and real-time data from space. The Hera Space Companion has been developed by Terra Mater Studios, Impact AI, and Microsoft Austria in collaboration with ESA.
Credits: ESA/Terra Mater
ESA's Solar Orbiter spacecraft launches aboard a ULA Atlas V rocket (NASA's main contribution) from pad 41 at the Kennedy Space Center. I was fortunate to be part of a team building scientific hardware for this mission. 9 February 2020.
ESA Astronauten mit Trainer
Alexander Gerst (D), Timothy Peake (UK),
Samantha Cristoforetti (I),
Thomas Pesquet (F),
Luca Parmitano
ESA's Kiruna station supports CryoSat, Integral, the Swarm trio and Sentinel 1A. It is located at Salmijärvi, 38 km east of Kiruna, in northern Sweden. Image credit: ESA - CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO
Technology image of the week:
ESA Director General Jan Woerner joined the Agency’s Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality at a special award ceremony for ESA’s inventors.
The ceremony took place at ESA’s technical centre in the Netherlands on 31 May, recognising inventors for their contributions during the past two years, leading to 13 patents.
“It is important to recognise the outstanding results of our ESA staff and contractors,” commented the Director General. “Through their creative work they help to maintain Europe’s competitiveness in the space industry.
“Furthermore, as ambassadors of their ideas, ESA’s inventors support the transfer of these patented technologies to completely new sectors, thereby demonstrating the benefit of space technology for society as a whole.”
In total, ESA’s patent portfolio consists of around 300 patented inventions and about 150 applications in progress, across a diverse variety of technical sectors. This portfolio is managed by the Agency’s Technology Transfer Programme Office, working to find terrestrial uses for advanced space technology.
Among the inventions awarded this time was a compression algorithm specially designed by David Evans to serve data housekeeping aboard satellites: it operates so rapidly that it can compress individual data packets as they are generated.
Credit: ESA–G. Porter
ESA's technical heart, ESTEC, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands, opened its gates to visitors on 2 October 2016 for the annual Open Day.
Credit: ESA-SJM Photography
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
The progress of the East Side Access construction in Long Island City, Queens, as of December 20, 2012.
This photo, looking east from underneath Northern Boulevard, shows what will be a track bed leading toward four newly excavated tunnels underneath Sunnyside Yard. The tunnels will connect Grand Central Terminal to the LIRR Main Line and to Sunnyside Yard.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
An artist's impression of the lunar outpost called the Gateway. The Gateway is the next structure to be launched by the partners of the International Space Station.
During the 2020s, it will be assembled and operated in the vicinity of the Moon, where it will move between different orbits and enable the most distant human space missions ever attempted.
Placed farther from Earth than the current Space Station – but not in a lunar orbit – the Gateway will offer a staging post for missions to the Moon and Mars.
Like a mountain refuge, it will provide shelter and a place to stock up on supplies for astronauts en route to more distant destinations. It will also offer a place to relay communications and can act as a base for scientific research.
The Gateway will weigh around 40 tonnes and will consist of a service module, a communications module, a connecting module, an airlock for spacewalks, a place for the astronauts to live and an operations station to command the Gateway’s robotic arm or rovers on the Moon. Astronauts will be able to occupy it for up to 90 days at a time.
A staging outpost near the Moon offers many advantages for space agencies. Most current rockets do not have the power to reach our satellite in one go but could reach the space Gateway. Europe’s Ariane would be able to deliver supplies for astronauts to collect and use for further missions deeper into space – much like mountain expeditions can stock up refuges with food and equipment for further climbs to the summit.
The Gateway also allows space agencies to test technologies such as electric propulsion where Earth’s gravity would interfere if done closer to home. New opportunities for space research away from Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere are planned for the outpost. Its close position will provide rapid response times for astronauts controlling rovers on the Moon.
Credits: ESA/NASA/ATG Medialab
Un fin de semana en una casita en el río...Donde no había nada más para fotografiar que justamente el río, árboles y niños, que ya me miraban con cara de pocos amigos...
Aún no llegó la primavera a Argentina, por lo tanto, no había más flores que este pequeño ramito al lado de un árbol y otra flor que encontré abandonada por ahí, en una mini selva...
Soy horrible fotografiando paisajes, de todas maneras, saqué muchas fotos intentando practicar un poco y conocer un poquito más mi cámara ( si me animo subo alguna).
Quería incluir un poco de color a las fotos y todo lo que encontré para ello, fue una manzana que rescaté de las "garras" de los niños que arrasaban con todo.
Me aferré a ella como la [ ARDILLA DE LA ERA DEL HIELO A SU BELLOTA ] y la usé para hacer esta serie de fotos, que intentan ser algo así como una historieta, donde la protagonista es la esa maldita manzana y la actríz secundaria es una pequeña linternita que uso como lúz de lectura
Locuras mías de un fin de semana "campestre", intentando sobrevivir sin mi notebook :P
CONTINUARÁ...
Progress continues on the East Side Access project as of February 12, 2013.
This photo shows work on the caverns underneath Grand Central Terminal that will house a future concourse for arriving and departing Long Island Rail Road trains.
Photo: Metropolitan Transportation Authority / Patrick Cashin.
ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet has been assigned to a long-duration mission on the International Space Station. A press conference to announce the assignment was held on 17 March 2014, at the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Read more about the announcement:
www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Human_Spaceflight/Astronauts/E...
Connect with Thomas Pesquet on social media at: thomaspesquet.esa.int
More photos available at: www.flickr.com/photos/thom_astro
Credit: ESA–N. Imbert-Vier, 2014
Expedition 50 ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, left, and backup crew member ESA astronaut Paolo Nespoli are seen in quarantine behind glass during a crew press conference, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. Pesquet, NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
View of Vega-C rocket, flight VV25, on the launch pad at Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, 4 December 2024.
Sentinel-1C is the third Sentinel-1 satellite to be launched as part of Europe’s Copernicus programme. It will continue the critical task of delivering radar imagery for a wide range of services, applications and science – all of which benefit society.
Vega-C is a single-body rocket nearly 35 m high with that weighs 210 tonnes on the launch pad. Vega-C can launch about 2300 kg in a reference 700 km-polar orbit. Using a new range of payload carriers, Vega-C can accommodate a mix of cargo shapes and sizes, ranging from CubeSats to a large single payload.
Credits: ESA–S. Corvaja
Cerrar el visillo de los ojos, hacer un crucero con las yemas por el mar herbáceo, embadurnarse de las gotas de rocío, el tacto rugoso y fresco de la naturaleza... Lee más en: unafotomilpalabras.wordpress.com/2012/04/24/esaspequenasc...
La cuestión seria es que estamos acabando el mes de noviembre y la cosa no está boyante, que digamos... Aunque a fuerza de ser sincero uno ya no sabe si achacar la escasez a los débiles tráficos o a la persona que debería fotografiarlos. Puesto en cifras, y para que se me entienda, dos mercantes en 25 días...
Cuando la veteranía es un grado, o un saco de patatas según se mire, la secuencia es aferrarse a la ley del mínimo esfuerzo y máxima comodidad. Te asignas un día de la semana, aguardas y cuando llega asomas la patita por entre las sábanas y compruebas que hace frío. Y piensas que con lo bien que se está en la camita va a salir a vía Rita la cantaora... Y cuando hace calor pasas porque temes que se derrita el poco seso que te queda.
Sea como fuere dejas que toda la noche vayan pasando pájaros sin que ello te inmute.
Puede que todo ello sea la razón de la insistente subida de churrifotos a mi galería. Sin embargo no es menos cierto que quiero demostrar que aún mantengo, de alguna forma, la ilusión de décadas pasadas. Por eso, y entre retazos del ayer, incorporo algo actual dentro de la panoplia de fotos.
Lo de siempre. Alrededor de las ocho abro los ojos, compruebo que la luz entra por entre la rendijas de la persiana y el pensamiento de horas anteriores se disipa. Se está tan bien bajo la colcha... Pero no es cuestión de permanecer agazapado hasta la hora de comer, así que a media mañana trinco el bonobús y me acerco hasta este punto. De lo que se trata es de quitarse el mono de encima, evidentemente.
De camino al punto, de repente, me invade la zozobra. "Hoy es viernes y están programados paros tanto en Renfe como en Adif. Buena me espera..." A pesar de ello quiero pasar algo más de una hora y ver lo que se cuece. Y se coció este largo portaautomóviles cargado de Kuga encaminándose a Ford. Oye, y agradecido porque no es demasiado común ver uno de estos puro de cabo a rabo; ya sabéis que lo normal es que vayan en forma de mixtos junto a los azules y los MC.
Total, que para qué más. Recojo los bártulos y a casa de nuevo, dispuesto a que me den de comer y luego dormir la siesta... Por Dios!!, no iban a ser todo trenes...
Nazaret (Valencia)
Placa Patente: RZU632
País de Origen: Bielorussia
Recuerdazo !! encuentro geniales estos Belavtomaz que tuvieron en Argentina, sobre todo con ese color tan clásico y anticuado... primera vez que veo uno 6x4 y con esa potencia, hasta ahora solo conocía el famoso 330 Turbo... al parecer no fueron muy exitosos estos camiones y por eso son pocos los que se ven, pero aúnque parezca increíble hay al menos 1 330 turbo que sigue viajando hacia Chile de vez en cuando...
Expedition 50 backup crew member NASA astronaut Jack Fischer is seen in quarantine behind glass during the State Commission meeting to approve the Soyuz launch to the International Space Station Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016 at the Cosmonaut Hotel in Baikonur, Kazakhstan. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy of Roscosmos, and ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet will launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan the morning of November 18 (Kazakh time.) All three will spend approximately six months on the orbital complex. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)
Photos taken at our ESOC mission control centre around the time of AOS (acquisition of signal) from ExoMars/TGO following the separation of the Schiaparelli lander Credit: ESA/P. Shlyaev
por peticion popular en mi casa tengo que colgar esta ya me direis
y espero os guste
mirarla pulsando " L " el teclado
On 10 October 2016, at 20:00 GMT (22:00 CEST), ESA's 35m deep-space tracking station at Cebreros, Spain, transmitted a message toward the North Star, as part of an project dubbed "A Simple Response to an Elemental Message." More details via blogs.esa.int/rocketscience/2016/07/28/a-simple-response/ Image credit: ESA/JL Lopez
ESA’s Mercury Planetary Orbiter (middle) and JAXA’s Mercury Magnetospheric Orbiter (top) being arranged in their launch configuration together with the Mercury Transfer Module (bottom) in a so-called ‘fit-check’. While the MPO and MMO are now integrated, the real integration of the MTM will take place after propellants have been added to the modules.
Credits: ESA/CNES/Arianespace/Optique video du CSG – J. Odang