And that's where star simulators — like the one featured in the photo above, in ESTEC's GNC, AOC and Pointing Laboratory — come in handy.

15.15 Visit to inspect the first European navigation satellite at the ESTEC Test Centre and official name-giving ceremony 16.00 Interview opportunities with the Minister and senior ESA staff ...

The 5G-LIDE mission is conducted by a fully Italian consortium led by Tyvak International, which was responsible for the ...

ESA maintains a large centre for the testing of space vehicles and their subsystems at its European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), located at Noordwijk in The Netherlands.

European Partners. Galileo is a collaboration between ESA and the European Commission (EC). The validation phase was co-funded by ESA and the EC, while the full operational phase is funded by the EC.

“During this meeting at ESTEC, we agreed on the importance and urgency of defining a common lunar reference time, which is internationally accepted and towards which all lunar system and users may ...

ESA ESTEC in 99 Objects is an online project that uses a diverse collection of items amassed from ESA missions and experiments to tell ESTEC’s technological story. Here are a few highlights.

The fourth Vega industry day took place on October 5th at ESA-ESTEC and the adjacent Space Expo in Noordwijk, The Netherlands. The day was an occasion for all participants in the Vega program to ...

Franco Ongaro, ESA Director of Technology, Engineering and Quality and head of ESTEC, remarked: “We are pleased and grateful to UNOOSA for this opportunity to open up LDC access to worldwide ...

ESA microwave engineers took apart an entire Galileo satellite to reassemble its navigation payload on a laboratory test bench to run it as though it were in orbit – available to investigate the ...

The Gravimeter for Small Solar System Objects (GRASS) has successfully passed the test campaign at the Mechanical Systems Laboratory at the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ESTEC technical centre ...