Space Rider? That completely went under my radar
...can you provide some good read on that?
Thanks,
So... An unclassified counterpart to the X-37B?
To me its more difficult to read, maybe for phones and tablets?
The Orion spacecraft with European Service Module at NASA’s Plum Brook Station. The first Orion will fly farther from Earth on the Artemis I mission than any human-rated vehicle has ever flown before – but first it will undergo testing to ensure the spacecraft withstands the extremes of spaceflight.
ESA commissions world’s first space debris removal
Ariane 5’s first launch of 2020 has delivered two telecom satellites, Konnect and GSAT-30, into their planned transfer orbits. Arianespace announced liftoff at 21:05 GMT (22:05 CET, 18:05 local time) this evening from Europe’s Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana.
ESA opens oxygen plant – making air out of moondust
A prototype oxygen plant has been set up in the Materials and Electrical Components Laboratory of the European Space Research and Technology Centre, ESTEC, based in Noordwijk in the Netherlands.
Oxygen and metal from lunar regolith
“Having our own facility allows us to focus on oxygen production, measuring it with a mass spectrometer as it is extracted from the regolith simulant,” Beth Lomax of the University of Glasgow, whose PhD work is being supported through ESA’s Networking and Partnering Initiative, harnessing advanced academic research for space applications.
Kerbal includes Ariane 5 and real ESA missions for gamers
The European Space Agency has asked the aerospace company Airbus to build another service module for the Americans' Orion crew capsule.
This contract, worth around €250m (£225m), is particularly noteworthy, however.
That's because the hardware will be part of the mission that returns astronauts to the Moon's surface for the first time in 52 years.
ESA Posters
ESA / About Us / ESA Publications
Did you know a selection of our most iconic and eye-catching space posters are available in an A3 print-ready format? Choose from our Space Security series, which includes posters on space weather, asteroids and safety in space. Or check out our collection celebrating 40 years of the Ariane launcher and ESA’s Columbus space laboratory. We’ve also got ESA’s ‘four pillars’ posters highlighting our key areas of space activity, as well as the ‘This is ESA’ illustration of ESA’s history and future in space. These posters are free to download, just click the links below.
Wishful thinking on ESA part. Maybe a few missions on. Can't see any but USA citizens getting on the first.
At least they all get on the surface.