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2 unusual facts about ESA


Adriana Mater

!Paris World Premiere Cast,
7 April 2006,
(Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen)

Philharmonia Orchestra

Since 2008, Esa-Pekka Salonen is the orchestra's principal conductor and artistic advisor.


...à la Fumée

Lasting circa 18 minutes, it was premiered in Helsinki on 20 March 1991 by flutist Petri Alanko, cellist Anssi Karttunen and the Finnish Radio Symphony conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Akhtar Mengal

One is Mengal’s own seat from his home constituency and the other is of Hamal Kalmati, who won from the strategic Gwadar constituency.Two candidates of the BNP, Esa Noori and Raouf Mengal, won national assembly seats from the Makran coastal region and Khuzdar, respectively.

Alan G. Poindexter

STS-122 was also a crew replacement mission, delivering Expedition 16 Flight Engineer, ESA Astronaut Léopold Eyharts, and returning home with Expedition 16 Flight Engineer, NASA Astronaut Daniel M. Tani.

Andromeda Galaxy

Discovered through a data collected by the ESA's XMM-Newton probe, and subsequently observed by NASA's Swift and Chandra, the Very Large Array, and the Very Long Baseline Array, the microquasar was the first observed within the Andromeda Galaxy and the first outside of the Milky Way Galaxy.

Beagle 2

In May 2004, the report from the Commission of Inquiry on Beagle 2 was submitted to ESA and the UK's science minister Lord Sainsbury.

Catherine Cesarsky

She was the Principal Investigator of the ISOCAM camera on board the Infrared Space Observatory (ISO) of the European Space Agency (ESA), which flew between 1995 and 1998.

Chang'e 1

The ESA Maspalomas Tracking Station was also used to transmit signals to and from the probe.

Emanuele Viscuso

Thanks to his proposal and support, on board the Space Shuttle Discovery, Node 2 - the interconnecting unit developed in Italy by Thales Alenia Space - and the ESA, the Italian Paolo Nespoli and other astronauts started their journey towards the International Space Station (ISS) bringing with them delicious Italian food to offer to the other astronauts on the Station in orbit.

Endangered Species Act

More changes were made in the 1990s in an attempt by Secretary of the Interior Bruce Babbitt to shield the ESA from a Congress hostile to the law.

Entwicklungsring Nord

The European Space Agency ESA in June 1974 named a consortium headed by ERNO-VFW Fokker (Zentralgesellschaft VFW-Fokker GmbH) to build pressurized modules for Spacelab.

Epsilon Sigma Alpha

As the care and expenses of handicapped children are a current ESA priority, the international Philanthropic Projects of Epsilon Sigma Alpha are St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and the Easter Seal Society.

Esa Tikkanen

The 1994 Breeders' Cup Turf was won by Tikkanen, a Thoroughbred racehorse named in Esa Tikkanen's honor by George W. Strawbridge, Jr., owner of Augustin Stable and an active director of the Buffalo Sabres NHL ice hockey club and a member of the team's executive committee for more than thirty years.

Etobicoke School of the Arts

ESA offers artistic programs for students who successfully complete the audition process in the major of their choice, namely Drama, Dance, Visual Arts, Film, Music (Band or Strings), and Musical Theatre.

European Satellite Navigation Competition

Since then, the competition has transformed into an international network that embodies innovation and expertise with the support of the most relevant stakeholders in the field, such as the European GNSS Agency (GSA), the European Space Agency (ESA), and the German Aerospace Center (DLR).

Finnish Meteorological Institute

The institute has been a part of several high-profile NASA and ESA missions, such as Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, Rosetta and BepiColombo, in addition to leading a lander mission of their own, MetNet.

HV71

The name of the historical scorer was Johan Lindbom, but other big heroes during the play-offs were the goalie Boo Ahl and the Finnish center-forward Esa Keskinen.

INTEGRAL

It is controlled from ESOC in Darmstadt, Germany, ESA's control centre, through ground stations in Belgium (Redu) and California (Goldstone).

Ironwood Ridge High School

As the school district applied for the permit, the cactus ferruginous pygmy owl was listed as an "endangered species" under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) by the FWS in 1997.

ISTP

International Solar-Terrestrial Physics Science Initiative, an international research collaboration between NASA, the ESA, and ISAS

Lawrence M. Small

In 2004, Small pleaded guilty to violating federal bird-protection laws (ESA, CITES, MBTA) by owning Amazonian tribal artifacts that contained feathers of protected bird species.

Los Angeles Master Chorale

Shostakovich (orchestration by Gerard McBurney): Prologue to Orango, Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting (Deutsche Grammophon)

Lou Esa

After playing defensive end in football for Saint Peter's College in New Jersey, Esa tried out for the Miami Dolphins.

Mailam Engineering College

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Portuguese Center for Pollution Prevention (C3P), jointly organised an International Workshop on Environment and Alternative Energy with the theme of "Global Collaboration in Sustainable Environmental and Alternative Energy Strategies" at the European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Noordwijk, Netherlands, on 15–18 November 2011.

Malcolm Fridlund

From the spring of 2006 is he also ESA project manager for the international COROT-project.

Mikko Heikka

Mikko Esa Juhani Heikka (born September 19, 1944 in Ylitornio) is a Finnish former bishop of the Evangelic Lutheran Church.

Nuna 1

These cells were part of a large solar array, retrieved by ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier and brought back to Earth in 1993 with a Space Shuttle.

Pål Brekke

In 1999 he joined the European Space Agency (ESA) as the SOHO Deputy Project Scientist stationed at NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center.

Ralph Tollemache

The Tollemache family's names are parodied in Book 1, Episode 4 of James Joyce's novel Finnegans Wake, as Helmingham Erchenwyne Rutter Egbert (HERE) Crumwall Odin Maximus Esme Saxon (COMES) Esa Vercingetorix Ethelwulf Rupprecht Ydwalla Bentley Osmund Dysart Yggdrasselmann (EVERYBODY).

River Gadder

The grasslands either side of the river are protected under the Environmentally Sensitive Area (ESA) scheme.

Robert Thirsk

He served as backup Flight Engineer to European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Roberto Vittori for the Soyuz TMA-6 taxi mission to the ISS in April 2005.

SCIAMACHY

SCIAMACHY, aboard the ENVISAT satellite, was launched by ESA (European Space Agency) from Kourou, French Guiana, in March 2002.

Solar Sentinels

Several other solar spacecraft will help with this mission, such as STEREO, Japan's Hinode, the Solar Dynamics Observatory, and ESA's Solar Orbiter.

Space debris

The ESA telecommunications satellite Olympus-1 was hit by a meteor on 11 August 1993 and left adrift.

STS-9

The mission was devoted entirely to Spacelab 1, a joint NASA/European Space Agency (ESA) program designed to demonstrate the ability to conduct advanced scientific research in space.

Swiss Museum of Transport

The Pallet, nicknamed Elvis, was used during the 8-day STS-46 mission, 31 July - 8 August 1992, when ESA astronaut Claude Nicollier was on board Shuttle Atlantis to deploy ESA's European Retrievable Carrier (Eureca) scientific mission and the joint NASA/Italian Space Agency Tethered Satellite System (TSS-1).

Systems Tool Kit

AGI states that STK has more than 40,000 installations at more than 800 global organizations such as NASA, ESA, CNES, DLR, Boeing, JAXA, ISRO, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, EADS, DOD, and Civil Air Patrol.

Tal Rosner

Since 2005, Rosner has collaborated with various musicians, including: Katia and Marielle Labeque, New World Symphony Orchestra and Michael Tilson Thomas, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jennifer Koh.

The Dharma at Big Sur

The piece was composed in 2003 for the opening of Disney Hall in Los Angeles and was conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen.

Timeline of Rosetta spacecraft

Rosetta restored communications with ESA's Operations Centre trough NASA’s Goldstone ground station at 18:17 CET.

Toru Takemitsu Composition Award

For the third 3-year cycle (2003-2005), George Benjamin (2003), Magnus Lindberg (2004) and John Adams (2005 • cancelled) were nominated by recommendation from the Advisors (Hiroyuki Iwaki, Oliver Knussen, Kent Nagano, Kazushi Ohno, Simon Rattle, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Hiroshi Wakasugi) and preceding judges.

Valsalva maneuver

In November 2011 ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti posted on Twitter a picture of her demonstrating the use of the Valsalva device in the Sokol space suit.

Wigbert Fehse

There, he and his teams at ESA and in industry developed basic techniques and technologies for automated rendezvous and docking of spacecraft, which are being applied in international space projects, such as the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), the first West-European spacecraft that docked automatically to the International Space Station (ISS) in April 2008.

Zoilo Canavery

Other musical artists that mention Canavery in his notes was Juan Sarcione, composer of the lyrics and the music of the tango Largue esa Mujica, this theme was interpreted by Carlos Gardel and recorded in 1929 for the Odeon label.


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