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26 unusual facts about European Space Agency


Alan G. Poindexter

In July 2006, Poindexter was assigned as Pilot on the STS-122 mission that delivered the European Space Agency's Columbus Laboratory to the International Space Station in February 2008.

Alexander V. Zakharov

However with an agreement for cooperation with the European Space Agency on ExoMars had been reached, the space agency chose to focus on that program instead, but not ruled out any possible future Phobos sample return mission.

Ben Bussey

He worked at the Lunar and Planetary Institute in Houston and the European Space Agency, before joining the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and becoming a senior staff scientist at that facility.

Council of the European Union

Following the entry into force of a framework agreement between the EU and ESA there is a Space Council configuration – joint and concomitant meeting of the EU Council and of the ESA Council at ministerial level dealing with the implementation of the ESP adopted by both organisations.

Critical Software

Critical Software has participated in Earth observation related projects of the European Space Agency, such as the prevention and mitigation of forest fires, ocean monitoring and research on complex climate systems.

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).

Fujifilm FinePix Real 3D

In December 2010 via the Russian spacecraft Soyuz 25S, a European Space Agency astronaut brought the Fujifilm FinePix REAL 3D W1 aboard the International Space Station.

Goliat

The project was funded and supported by the Romanian Ministry of Education and the European Space Agency.

John D. Olivas

The mission included three spacewalks to remove and replace a materials processing experiment outside ESA’s Columbus module and return an empty ammonia tank assembly.

John Krige

After earning a PhD in philosophy at the University of Sussex, in the United Kingdom in 1979, Krige's academic career has been in the history of science, including notable efforts within the project to write the history of CERN and the European Space Agency in the 1980s and 1990s.

Living Planet Index

In a world first, the LPR 2012 was launched from space by astronaut André Kuipers in the International Space Station, in collaboration with the European Space Agency.

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.

Marc Reagan

He has been extensively involved in negotiations and development of training with the Russian Space Agency in support of the ISS, as well as the Japanese and European Space Agencies.

Pål Brekke

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

Patrick Air Force Base

These rockets include satellites for the US military, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the National Security Agency, as well as scientific payload launches in support of NASA, weather satellite launches in support of NOAA, payloads in support of international customers such as the European Space Agency, and commercial payloads for various corporate communications entities.

Peat swamp forest

A study for the European Space Agency found that the peat swamp forests are a significant carbon sink for the planet, and that the fires of 1997-8 may have released up to 2.5 billion tonnes, and the 2002-3 fires between 200 million to 1 billion tonnes, of carbon into the atmosphere.

PW-Sat

The cost of the project is estimated to be 200,000 Polish zloty (63,205 USD), with funding coming from the university's budget, as well as from an agreement between Poland and the European Space Agency.

Revelation Space

The novel reflects Reynolds's professional background: he has a PhD in Astronomy and worked for many years for the European Space Agency.

Rex J. Walheim

STS-122, which was a 12-day, 18-hour flight, delivered the European-built Columbus module to the ISS the European Space Agency (ESA).

Skysoft

Skysoft Portugal has been working with some of the major European players such as the European Space Agency, TMN Portugal, AXA Portugal, SIBS - Sociedade Interbancária de Serviços, Thales Avionics, BAE Systems Avionics, EADS - Airbus.

Space policy of the European Union

Currently each member state pursues their own national space policy, though often co-ordinating through the independent European Space Agency (ESA).

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.

Sylvia Cornet

As such she cooperated with the Histrecmed website of the CNRS/INSERM devoted to the history of medical research and with the European Space Agency (Earth Observation Program).

Timeline of first orbital launches by country

Later it joined the ESA, but not the launcher consortium Arianespace, therefore becoming the only nation that developed launch capability and then officially lost it.

TinKode

He claims to have gained access to computers belonging to the European Space Agency.

Universidad de Sonora

The University is part of the UN Regional Coordination of Activities in Basic Space Science for America, an aerospace consortium based in Vienna, Austria, and co-sponsored by the European Space Agency.


Adriana Ocampo

She is also the lead scientist responsible for NASA’s collaboration with the European Space Agency’s Venus Express mission and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Venus Climate Orbiter mission.

CalSky

It was created by Arnold Barmettler a researcher at the University of Zurich and formerly a scientific assistant at the European Space Agency.

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.

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.

First Orbit

By matching the orbit of the International Space Station to that of Vostok 1 as closely as possible, in terms of ground path and time of day, documentary filmmaker Christopher Riley and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli were able to film the view that Yuri Gagarin saw on his pioneering orbital space flight.

France A. Córdova

She has published more than 150 scientific papers, and has a current experiment on the European Space Agency's X-Ray Multi-Mirror Mission.

Kieserite

In early 2005, Mars Express, a European Space Agency orbiter, discovered evidence of kieserite in patches of Valles Marineris (the largest canyon on Mars), along with gypsum and polyhydrated sulfates.

Memorial Museum of Astronautics

It has virtually tripled its original size and has added new sections dedicated to space programs worldwide, including the USA, Europe, China and the ISS.

Norwegian Space Centre

The Hinode Science Data Centre (SDC) Europe has been developed through the Norwegian Space Centre, at the Institute of Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Oslo, as part of the contribution of the European Space Agency to the Hinode mission.

Registration Convention

The European Space Agency and European Organization for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites have submitted declarations of acceptance of rights and obligations according to the convention.

SCIAMACHY

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